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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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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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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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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.
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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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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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Women are a colonized people.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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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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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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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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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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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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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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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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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We are the women men warned us about.
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