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Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.

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Taken, What Matters, Inward

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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

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Ordinary, Ordinariness

Robin Morgan (2015). “Lady of the Beasts: Poems”, p.49, Open Road Media

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We are the women men warned us about.

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Inspiring, Men

Robin Morgan (2016). “Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology”, p.1122, Open Road Media

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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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Inspiring, Feminist, Quality

Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.53, Open Road Media

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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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Drama, Comedy, Life Is

Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.377, Open Road Media

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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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Goodbye, Men, Capitalist Economy

Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.37, Open Road Media

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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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Book, Dirty, Hands

Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.54, Open Road Media

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

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Death, Matter, Surprise

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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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Friendship, Powerful, Mutual Love

Twitter post from Jul 27, 2011

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Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.

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Fear, Hate, Evil

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Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

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Self, World, Splits

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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

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Women, Chinese, Slave

Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.81, Open Road Media

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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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Life, Thinking, Alive

Robin Morgan (2014). “Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New, 1968–1988”, p.67, Open Road Media

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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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Believe, Gay, Bisexual

Robin Morgan (2014). “The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions”, p.129, Open Road Media

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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

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Choices, Causes, Alarms

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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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Change, People, Profound

Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.367, Open Road Media

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It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

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Struggle, Fighting, Winning

Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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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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Men, Yellow, White

Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.37, Open Road Media

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Sisterhood is powerful.

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Sister, Powerful, Sibling

Robin Morgan (2014). “Upstairs in the Garden: Poems Selected and New, 1968–1988”, p.206, Open Road Media

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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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Abortion, Catholic, Church

Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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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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Mother, Children, Mean

Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.28, Open Road Media

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Women are a colonized people.

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People, Male Dominance, Oppression

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Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

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Energy, Connections, Metaphor

Robin Morgan (2014). “The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions”, p.270, Open Road Media

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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

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Women, Eggs, Chickens

Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.368, Open Road Media

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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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Book, Self, Tears

Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.57, Open Road Media

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Born: January 29, 1941
Occupation: Poet
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