Erica Jong Quotes
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.
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There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
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When most people become president, even if you disagree with their ideology, you can still agree that they would have the competence to run something... With Trump, I do not have the confidence of that at all.
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Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.
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I played an old woman in a wheelchair at 18.
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I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
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The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.
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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.
