Erica Jong Quotes

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

Erica Jong

• Freedom
• Daughter
• Example
• Exhortation

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• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

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• In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

  

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• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

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• The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

  

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• If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

  

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• I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?

  

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• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

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• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

  

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• I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.

  

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• If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.

  

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• I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.

  

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• I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

  

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• These niggas ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government. Don't matter if you're Independent, Democrat or Republican

  

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• Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

  

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• Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

  

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• The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.

  

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• The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

  

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• Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.

  

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• Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.

  

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• One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.

  

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• What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Freedom
  • Daughter
  • Example