Erica Jong Quotes

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

Erica Jong

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• Hunger
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• We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
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• That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Problem
  • Head
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• In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Black
  • Problem
  • Soldiers

• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Real
  • Business

• If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Problem
  • See
  • Colors

• The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Problem
  • Sad

• What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Future
  • Problem

• Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • People
  • Action
  • Problem

• I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Good
  • Problem

• Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Problem
  • Down
  • Poor

• We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Children
  • Know
  • Hunger

• I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Real
  • Today
  • Problem

• You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Real
  • Friends

• I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Myself
  • See
  • Feminist

• I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Song
  • Problem

• I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Feminist
  • Lady
  • Rather

• I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Problem
  • Problems
  • Aging

• Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Why
  • True
  • Question

• Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Role
  • Conflict
  • Australia

• Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Children
  • Age
  • Party

• As a party, Democrats must focus on the pocketbook issues that our constituents care about every day when they wake up to go to work, drop off their kids at school, and tuck them into bed at night.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • School
  • Kids
  • Wake Up

• As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Important
  • Long
  • Live

• I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Problem
  • Feminist
  • Hunger