Erica Jong Quotes
Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
Quotes to Explore
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
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We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.
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Moving from a first to a second album is an incredibly transitional time for any band because you never get to make one in a vacuum like you did with your debut.
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On camera, the audience can see your eyes close up - they can see behind your eyes - and when you're on stage, you need to make sure that the person sitting in the back row can feel what's happening behind your eyes, even if they can't see them. Having a live audience is exhilarating and exciting all on its own, but you know, it is quite different.
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Our responsibility is to determine whether the nominee is fit for the position ... and whether the nominee, in our judgment, will serve in the national interest, ... Dr. Condoleezza Rice meets that standard at least and much more.
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Everybody's got regrets. It's a personal choice as to whether or not you can change.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
