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Robin Morgan
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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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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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... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
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Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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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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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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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
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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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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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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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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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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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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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
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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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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