Erica Jong Quotes

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

Erica Jong

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• House
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• Loan

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• The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Brothers
  • Favorites

• We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Great
  • She
  • Play

• The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Story
  • Difficult

• I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Ever

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • America
  • Control

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Today
  • Hero
  • Tomorrow

• I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Soul

• Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Like
  • Body
  • Your Body

• I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Technology
  • Need
  • Big

• I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Time
  • Think
  • Better

• At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Day
  • Government
  • End

• When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Quality
  • First
  • Health care

• For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Up
  • Want
  • Know

• I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'

  

  Candice Millard
  • Hair
  • Moment
  • Library

• Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Reading

• I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, 'What?'

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • People
  • Beautiful

• When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • America
  • Latin

• I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Stories
  • Writer
  • Magazines

• The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Science
  • Responsibility
  • Purpose

• If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Remember
  • House
  • Despair