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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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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.
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
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
Robin Morgan
There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
Robin Morgan
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
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.
Robin Morgan
I am an artist and a political being as well.
Robin Morgan
Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
Robin Morgan
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
Robin Morgan
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.
Robin Morgan
Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
Robin Morgan
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
Robin Morgan
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.
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 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
We are the women men warned us about.
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
The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
Robin Morgan
raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
Robin Morgan
