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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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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame. – Erica Jong

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Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind. – Mercy B. Jackson

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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. – Timothy Leary

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

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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. – Gloria Steinem

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Fortune and love favor the brave. – Ovid

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