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“My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.” quote by Erica Jong — Download Open image

“My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.”

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“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really…

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Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.

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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

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“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires as men, as avid for sexual fulfilment and power as men, but held back by the twin myths of good-girlism and sentimental sisterhood. Though she is perhaps too sanguine about women quickly overcoming their fear of…

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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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It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was…

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I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

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I'd like to do some female roles again.

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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the…

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Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

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