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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
Robin Morgan
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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
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Lake Worth Beach
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Robin Evonne Morgan
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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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Women are a colonized people.
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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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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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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Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
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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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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 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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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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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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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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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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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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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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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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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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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