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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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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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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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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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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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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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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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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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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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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion
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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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people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.
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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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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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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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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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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