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Robin Morgan
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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
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Feminist
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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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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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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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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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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.
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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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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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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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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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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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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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Women are a colonized people.
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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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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.
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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.
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