Erica Jong Quotes
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Quotes to Explore
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.
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The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.
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Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
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China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.
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'I sucked a lot of liberal cocks to get where I am today.'
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I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.
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Then spoke the thunder DA Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.
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I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill.
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I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.
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There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
