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this phrase "pointed out how politics permeated everyday life. It also prescribed how actions in everyday life were important in challenging structural power relations" (Patricia Hill Collins, Fighting Words). Robin Morgan (Saturday's Child) said the feminists first using the phrase meant that "politics is about power. That insight has genuinely altered our national consciousness ... understanding that the personal is political has helped change the way we see things, and helped change the rules. By the way, the political is also personal."