Erica Jong Quotes

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

Erica Jong

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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Girl

• I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

  

  Otis Redding
  • People
  • Love
  • Nice

• I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Love
  • Child
  • Angel

• You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Women
  • Love
  • Respect

• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Love
  • Marriage

• I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Base

• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Love
  • Trees

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Love
  • Laughter
  • For Him

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
  • Write
  • Read

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Love
  • Car
  • Fast

• As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Kind
  • Story
  • Forget

• I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Real
  • School
  • Love

• Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Home
  • Fireside

• Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Literature

• I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Boy

• If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Love
  • Praise

• Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.

  

  Terry Hayes
  • Love
  • Compassion
  • Form

• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Sure