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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

Erica Jong

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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
Century
Passion
Problem
Substituting
Women
Adornment
Love
Centuries
Feminism
Feminist
Fashion

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