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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealiz

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. – Erica Jong

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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. – Erica Jong

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Women
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Erica Jong
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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting Hiawatha and they groan. – Erica Jong

Category:
Poetry
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Erica Jong
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Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others. – Liz Stanley and Sue Wise

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I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. – Sally Kempton, attributed

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Most women are one man away from welfare. – Gloria Steinem

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[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. – Pat Robertson

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