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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

— Robin Morgan Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist (1977)

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Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist (1977). New York: Random House. ISBN 0394482271. (1978 ed, ISBN 039472612X.), p 70. (possibly also published as Going Too Far: The Personal Documents of a Feminist) ("there is no 'too far,'" id., p. 8, "Introduction: Rights of Passage")

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