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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

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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
Adaptability
Singularity
Wrong
Shows
Mind
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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