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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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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
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Lake Worth Beach
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Robin Evonne Morgan
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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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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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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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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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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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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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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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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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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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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... 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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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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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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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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