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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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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
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Feminist
Journalist
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Poet
Political Scientist
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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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.
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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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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
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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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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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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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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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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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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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We are the women men warned us about.
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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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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
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