Erica Jong Quotes

The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

Erica Jong

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• My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Family
  • You
  • Tease

• I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.

  

  Cam
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Community

• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Family
  • Best
  • Sense

• When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Different
  • Family
  • Experience

• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Prison
  • Human Rights

• Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Life
  • Family
  • Father

• For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Family
  • Food
  • Running

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Family
  • Father

• My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Amazing

• Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

  

  Lara St. John
  • People
  • Children
  • Family

• I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Alive
  • I Can
  • Jewish

• There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The world is so harsh, so when stuff happens outside, you want to go to your family, but when stuff happens inside your family, you sort of start to feel like, 'I'm alone. There is no place I can go to where just nothing will happen to me.'

  

  Dove Cameron
  • World
  • Family
  • Alone

• Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• I just feel like you're being realistic if you can laugh at yourself.

  

  Lucy Dacus

• You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

  

  Constantine Karamanlis
  • Life

• A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • Work
  • Business
  • Star

• The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Family
  • Older
  • Jewish