Erica Jong Quotes
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
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The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.
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I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.
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I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.
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I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!
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Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
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I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'
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If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.
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I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
