"Men and women, women and men. It will never work."
-Erica Jong
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"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.“
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"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."
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"Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society."
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"I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper."
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"Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan."
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