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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
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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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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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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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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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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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
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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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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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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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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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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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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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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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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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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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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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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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Women are a colonized people.
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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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