Erica Jong Quotes

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Erica Jong

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• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Opportunity
  • Procrastination
  • 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.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 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.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Great
  • Long
  • Song

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • 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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Cancer

• 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.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• 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!

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Past
  • Question
  • Challenge

• I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • School
  • Want
  • 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.

  

  Felix Adler
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Game
  • Something
  • Dialogue

• Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• 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.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Death
  • Reputation

• We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Future
  • Evolution
  • Depend

• Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • World
  • Live
  • Dark

• The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

  

  Linda Vester
  • World
  • Women
  • School

• For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Up
  • Time
  • Me

• You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go.

  

  Maria Shriver
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Aw, I feel bad if [Taylor] was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • She
  • Bad
  • Girl

• Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Women
  • Powerlessness
  • Exploited