Erica Jong Quotes

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

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• One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Government
  • Slavery
  • Dirty

• They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • Future
  • Hunting
  • Engage

• The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Important
  • Theology
  • Romans

• I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Life
  • End
  • My Life

• I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Lucky

• I'm starting to find my own style.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Style
  • Find
  • Starting

• I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Day
  • Always
  • Eating

• We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Value

• If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • You
  • Understand
  • Confused

• I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Deep
  • Dancing
  • Talents

• You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Know

• They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Write
  • Asked
  • Sacking

• Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Business
  • Ugly

• As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Fascinated

• The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Good
  • Enemy
  • Anxiety

• You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Need

• Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Down
  • Principles
  • System

• Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • People
  • Men
  • Practice

• When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

  

  Erica Jong
  • System