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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
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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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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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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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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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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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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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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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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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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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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