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I am an artist and a political being as well.
Robin Morgan
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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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In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
Robin Morgan
Women are a colonized people.
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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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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Robin Morgan
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.
Robin Morgan
An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.
Robin Morgan
We are the women men warned us about.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
Robin Morgan
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
Robin Morgan
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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The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion
Robin Morgan
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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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
Robin Morgan
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.
Robin Morgan
being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
Robin Morgan
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
Robin Morgan
raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
Robin Morgan
The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
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