Erica Jong Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You have to find out how to become the character.
-
I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
-
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
-
The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
-
No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.
-
There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
-
The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
-
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
-
I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
-
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
-
Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
-
I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
-
Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
-
Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
-
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
-
I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
-
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
-
We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
-
I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
-
The moon touched my shoulder and I longed for a vanished love.
-
I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
-
I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.
-
Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my one or two readers who follow me from book to book!
Colson Whitehead -
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
