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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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