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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
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Groups
History
Idealized

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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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