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.
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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.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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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.
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
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Men tend to be selfish.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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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.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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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?
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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.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
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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.
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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
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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.
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
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We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn't I? The least I could have done was to have the decency to have turned out a little more like him.
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I think we’re men and women more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.
