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Robin Morgan [1941-0] American
Rank: 102
Activist, Poet


Robin Morgan is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor. Since the early 1960s she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the international feminist movement.

Friendship, Knowledge, Marriage, Power, Religion



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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. Knowledge, Power
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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. Friendship
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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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We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage. Marriage
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I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
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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.
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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.
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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. Religion
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We're not inherently anything but human.
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Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.
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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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Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
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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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It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
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Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.
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Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
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Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.
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We are the women men warned us about.
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Should we tolerate debate within feminism's ranks? Undebatable! But it's not so simple: women are socialised to avoid conflict; when we do differ, especially on politics and in public, it's still tediously labelled a 'catfight.'
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that.
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