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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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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

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

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I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry. – Joan Baez, “Sexism Seen but not Heard,” Los Angeles Times, 1974

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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. – Susan B. Anthony

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