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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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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
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Feminist
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Poet
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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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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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
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