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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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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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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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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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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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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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We are the women men warned us about.
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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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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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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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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
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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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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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Women are a colonized people.
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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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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