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.

Erica Jong

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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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• 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.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Support
  • Running
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Company

• I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Doing
  • Creative
  • Process

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Like
  • Always
  • Someone

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Day
  • Balance

• I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • People
  • World
  • Freedom

• 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.'

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Technology

• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Story
  • Indian

• The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Always
  • Beginning
  • India

• The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Party
  • Challenge
  • Personality

• 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.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Real
  • Enough
  • Happen

• I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Fan

• Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Everything
  • Greed
  • Destroys

• 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!

  

  Pat Brown
  • Work
  • May
  • Problem

• I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

  

  Boris Becker

• I love 'Arrested Development.'

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty

• Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

  

  Joan of Arc
  • God
  • Daughter
  • King

• I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Done
  • Change
  • Value

• Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

  

  Fredrik Bajer

• 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.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father