Erica Jong Quotes
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
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I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.
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I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.
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My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
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I am open to them. If I come across something interesting, and I think it suits me, I may do a horror movie.
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I like Lil Wayne.
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There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
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We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
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No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.
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The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'
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I'm a beauty guru, I just love all of that stuff. We have a makeup artist for 'Dance Moms' that touches us up and stuff, but I love doing my own makeup; sometimes I do my friends', too. My favorite is doing eye shadow and eyeliner.
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You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?
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When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.
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Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
