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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.

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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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Women
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Experimentally
Hierarchical
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