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... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
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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... 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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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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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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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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We are the women men warned us about.
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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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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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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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.
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Women are a colonized people.
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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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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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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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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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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