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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

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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
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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