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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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