Quote by Erica Jong
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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. – Erica Jong

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Wisdom
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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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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. – Lucretia Mott

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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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Feminism

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. – Fay Weldon

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Feminism

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. – Jane Fonda

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. – Orson Rega Card

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