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.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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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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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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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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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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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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Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day.
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No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.
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I think the reality is that there's a role for everybody to play in the work of social justice and that we have to organize everybody. That means that Silicon Valley has to be organized, the fashion industry has to be organized, the formerly incarcerated have to be organized, the teachers.
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When bills come in, Medicare get so many bills every day, it pays most of them and then goes back later to figure out if they were fraudulent, if it ever goes back at all.
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For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write for yourself, then why don't you just keep it under the bed,' so I definitely write for other people.
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I'm not Russell Crowe. I'm not going to do a period piece.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
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A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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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.
