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" I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else. "

Erica Jong

Feminism

Women

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Forgotten

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You

Risk

" All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. "

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" As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living. "

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" I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. "

" There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. "

" Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. "

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Dark

Talent

" Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember? "

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" I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on. "

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Think

World

" My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. "

" Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. "

" We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. "