Erica Jong Quotes
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
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The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
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Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.
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The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.
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Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse.
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Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
