Erica Jong Quotes
When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.
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If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.
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Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
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The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
