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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. – Erica Jong

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Courage
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Erica Jong
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life – when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. – Erica Jong

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Poetry
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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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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. – Isadora Duncan

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Women are all female impersonators to some degree. – Susan Brownmiller

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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[C]elebrate the exquisite beauty of every woman. – Cindy Olsen, co-owner of The Body Objective website, 1999

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