Erica Jong Quotes

I think we’re men and women more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

Erica Jong

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• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
  • Giving

• I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Young

• I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Know

• When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Future
  • Hair

• Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Reality
  • Make A Difference

• Men tend to be selfish.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Men
  • Selfish
  • Tend

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Military

• The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Body

• People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • People
  • Reality
  • Serious

• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Life
  • Men
  • Man

• So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Today
  • Fate

• I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Men
  • Myself

• Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Women
  • Psychology

• If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality, and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable. Whereas if you're using it for virtual reality teleconferencing... there's really no kind of impact moving back and forth between the real and the virtual world.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • World
  • Real
  • Experience

• The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Happy

• The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Japanese

• We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Government

• Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Women
  • Father
  • Man

• ... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Great
  • Women
  • History

• A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.

  

  Laura Wade
  • You
  • Old
  • Skills

• In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Confidence
  • Minds
  • Convinced

• Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

  

  Philippe Halsman
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin
  • Time

• I think we’re men and women more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • Women
  • Reality