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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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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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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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... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
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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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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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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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We are the women men warned us about.
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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