The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad. Erica Jong
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The biggest problem with feminists is that they assume that all women are the same. Many feminists assume that female behavior is the same across all women. They assume that every woman is the same and therefore, everything she does or says should be considered as equally bad. However, that's not true at all.

There are many different types of women and many different types of women do things differently than others. It is important to realize and accept the differences among women and to understand why some behaviors may be problematic for one woman but not another.

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