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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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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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No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. – Rabbi Sofer

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Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. – Lois Wyse

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

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One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. – Marlo Thomas

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