Erica Jong Quotes

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

Erica Jong

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• Itself

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• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • People
  • Why
  • Power

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Power
  • Laughter
  • Horror

• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Best
  • Safety

• The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Time
  • Done
  • Freedom

• Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Power
  • Night

• The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Power

• Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Freedom
  • Best
  • Criticism

• Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Money
  • Power

• I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Power
  • Success
  • Eyes

• Writing has to support itself.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Support
  • Itself

• Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Girl

• As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Love
  • Power
  • For Him

• There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• After seven years of marriage,He wanted out.Now after seven months of freedom,It's clear that there's no doubt.She's gonna make it,And he never will.He's at the foot of the mountain,And she's over that hill.He's sinkin' at sea,And her sails are filled.She's gonna make it,And he never will.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • She
  • Freedom
  • Marriage

• I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back as you can go - just to Homer, but also to the literature of Rome, the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - what you will find is that women's voices are not taken seriously.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Past
  • Taken

• It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Soul

• You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Copy

• You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • World
  • American
  • Car

• Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Success

• Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Roses