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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. – Erica Jong

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Change
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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

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Poetry
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Erica Jong
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Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. – Evelyn Cunningham

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Feminism

History is herstory too. – Author Unknown

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Feminism

Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused — as remarkable you might say — as most women. – Jane Howard

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Feminism

Sexism is a social disease. – Author Unknown

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Feminism

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Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible. – James Laver, Style in Costume

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Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights. – Jack Kingston

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Marriage

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. – Joan Rivers

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I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasnt there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope. – Liam Neeson

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Hope