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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 thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that wont pay the Bergdorfs bill. I think Ill move to somewhere life is cheaper. – Erica Jong

Category:
Poetry
Author
Erica Jong
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There is still the feeling that womens writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. – Erica Jong

Category:
Knowledge
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Erica Jong
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Other Quotes from
Feminism
category

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. – Author Unknown

Category:
Feminism

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Our Girls”

Category:
Feminism

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. – Jill Ruckelshaus

Category:
Feminism

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. – Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler

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Feminism

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Love, love, love — all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. – Germaine Greer

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