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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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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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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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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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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
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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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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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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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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
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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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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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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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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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