Erica Jong Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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I have no faith in my ability to judge things.
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When my own son is going through what he goes through, coming back, I can certainly relate with other families, who kind of fill these ramifications of some PTSD.
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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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Given enough time, even evolution evolves.
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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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Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.
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I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
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It doesn't take a brilliant mind to notice that adults are telling you what to do and then they do the opposite. I mean, I can't recall every stupid thing that adults were doing when I was six or seven. Some of it was the religious restrictions, where there were certain things that you were allowed to do and certain things that you weren't allowed to do, and I couldn't make things of those things.
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Jealousy doesn't show how much you love someone, it shows how insecure you are.
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Just use the same quotes. It's the same story.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
