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Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir Quotes: Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home and growing up.
         

Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home and growing up.


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Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home and growing up.
         



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