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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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Women are a colonized people.
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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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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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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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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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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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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.
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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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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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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.
Robin Morgan
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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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
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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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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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