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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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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
... 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.
Robin Morgan
The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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
Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.
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
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
Robin Morgan
There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
Robin Morgan
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
Robin Morgan
... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
Robin Morgan
Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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
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
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion
Robin Morgan
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Robin Morgan
I am an artist and a political being as well.
Robin Morgan
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
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
The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
Robin Morgan
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
Robin Morgan