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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Women
Powerlessness
Exploited
Sisterhood
Feminist
Equality
Group
Groups
History
Idealized

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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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