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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.
Robin Morgan
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.
Robin Morgan
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.
Robin Morgan
The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
Robin Morgan
Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
Robin Morgan
Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
Robin Morgan
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.
Robin Morgan
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Robin Morgan
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
Robin Morgan
... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
Robin Morgan
... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
Robin Morgan
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan
There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
Robin Morgan
Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
Robin Morgan
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.
Robin Morgan
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
Robin Morgan
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
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
Robin Morgan
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.
Robin Morgan
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
Robin Morgan
