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Erica Jong: Growing up female...

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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas.

Source: The narrator (Isadora Wing), in Fear of Flying, ch. 1 (1973).
-- Erica Jong, (Mar 26 1942-____), US author, poet; She is noted for Fear of Flying, 1973 and Parachutes and Kisses, 1984.

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