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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

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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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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.
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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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We are the women men warned us about.
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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Women are a colonized people.
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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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.
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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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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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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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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.
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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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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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Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.
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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.
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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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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