Robin Morgan - Saturday's Child (2000)

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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

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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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In the United States... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

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Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.

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The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.

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Guilt politics... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

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For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

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People are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.

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What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

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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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No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

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As we've frequently had to remind politicians, women were not born Democrats, Republicans, or yesterday.

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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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