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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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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
Editor
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Political Scientist
Writer
Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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Viewing
Poems
Breathing
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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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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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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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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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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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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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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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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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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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Women are a colonized people.
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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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