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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
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Feminist
Journalist
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Poet
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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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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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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... 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.
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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
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If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
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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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people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.
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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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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.
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.
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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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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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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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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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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.
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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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