"I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child ***** or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so."

-- Erica Jong

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