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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

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
Habit
Serious
Women
May
Children
Establish
Work
Habits
Never
Bear
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