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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

Robin Morgan

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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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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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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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... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
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We are the women men warned us about.
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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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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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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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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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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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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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
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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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Women are a colonized people.
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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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