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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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Life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
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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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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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The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
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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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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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Mother, in ways neither of us can ever understand,
I have come home.
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May we comprehend that we cannot be stopped.
May I learn how to survive until my part is finished.
May I realize that I
am a
monster. I am
a
monster.
I am a monster.
And I am proud.
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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.
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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'Raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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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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I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.'
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If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
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Every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing — but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.
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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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Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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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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Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers
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Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.
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Guilt politics... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
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In the United States... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.
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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Robin Morgan
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Born:
January 29, 1941
(age 83)
Bio:
Robin Morgan is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor.
Known for:
Sisterhood is Powerful (1970)
The Demon Lover (1989)
Sisterhood Is Forever (2003)
Saturday's Child (2000)
The anatomy of freedom (1982)
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