Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your …

Erica Jong
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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. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms! ✨ Erica Jong (2013). Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition, p.27, Open Road Media
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