TuesdayNov 18, 2025
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Erica Jong (née Mann, born March 26, 1942, in New York City, New York) is an American author and educator.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
I am thinking of the onion again.... Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as 'women's issues' and learn that they are everyone's issues essential to survival on planet Earth.
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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