Erica Jong Quotes

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

Erica Jong

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• My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion.

  

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• In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice system. I made an announcement in August of that year in San Francisco, when we rolled out the Smart on Crime initiative.

  

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• I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

  

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• One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.

  

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• Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

  

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• [On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.

  

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• If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sufficient