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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
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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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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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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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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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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We are the women men warned us about.
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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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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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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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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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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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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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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 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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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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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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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 Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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