Erica Jong Quotes
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.
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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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I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
