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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Robin Morgan

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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
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Feminist
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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Women are a colonized people.
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An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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We are the women men warned us about.
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The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.
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I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.
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It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.
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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
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When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.
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In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
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