Erica Jong Quotes

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

Erica Jong

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• We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Vision
  • Solution
  • Ending

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Me
  • Kind

• I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Free
  • Fear

• Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Need
  • Cash

• A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Cool

• Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • America
  • Realize

• All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Want

• To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Up
  • Great
  • Wish

• Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn’t crazy with religion.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Crazy

• If we say that we believe in democracy, if we say that the fabric of a democratic society is one which allows for the free play of idea...then, in the name of all the gods, give that free play a chance to work within the constitutional framework.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Society

• The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Men
  • Understanding

• That man is of supreme folly who always wants for fear of wanting; and his life flies away while he is still hoping to enjoy the good things which he has with extreme labour acquired.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fear

• Jo, his wife, remarked on Hopper's painting 'Cape Cod morning', 1950: 'It is a woman looking out to see if the weather is good enough to hang out her wash'. Then Edward Hopper reacted: 'did I say that? You're making it Norman Rockwell. From my point of view she's just looking out the window, just looking out the window'.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Good
  • She
  • Wife

• I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of styles going on. More so than in the Sixties and Seventies, when there was an overriding look and sound.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Period

• When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Done

• Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Time
  • Management

• Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

  

  Clementine Paddleford
  • Beer

• I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September.

  

  Lisa Snowdon
  • Morning
  • September

• I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • Up
  • Help
  • Photography

• Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.

  

  Kerry Healey
  • Education
  • Health
  • Serious

• So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

  

  Will Self
  • Intimacy
  • Cards

• If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Light
  • Wisdom
  • Suffering

• I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sex
  • Intimacy