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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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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
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Feminist
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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