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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
Actor
Editor
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Political Scientist
Writer
Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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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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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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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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Women are a colonized people.
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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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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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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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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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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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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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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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There's something contagious about demanding 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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... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
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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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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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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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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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