Jennifer Egan Quotes

When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I might actually not be able to do it anymore. I really could not do it well, and I felt out of sorts with it.

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• I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

  

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• I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

  

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• You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

  

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• I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.

  

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• Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.

  

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• My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.

  

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• Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.

  

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• I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

  

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• Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

  

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• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

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• Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

  

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• Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.

  

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• When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline from start to finish, so I'll piss about for three months and pretend to get started. Then there's four to six months of actual writing and, after that, submissions, edits, and eventually a finished product.

  

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• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

  

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• There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

  

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• One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.

  

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• Speciesism-the word is not an attractive one, but I can think of no better term-is a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species.

  

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• More law, less justice.

  

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• A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

  

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• Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.

  

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• When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I might actually not be able to do it anymore. I really could not do it well, and I felt out of sorts with it.

  

  Jennifer Egan