"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."
-Erica Jong
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"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.“
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"Men and women, women and men. It will never work."
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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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"No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks."
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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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