Erica Jong Quotes
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The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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Time is my biggest luxury. Finding time to do things outside of fashion, which I think for a designer is incredibly important.
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My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women.
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Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
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There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.
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Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.
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I'm not your typical quarterback. I don't like when people say, 'Quarterbacks aren't supposed to run,' or, 'Quarterbacks aren't supposed to work out a certain way.'
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.
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Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure - all those things flow from that economic base.
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I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
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I am a lawyer by profession.
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Blaming women is always in fashion.
