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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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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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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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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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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I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.
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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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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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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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Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.
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For me, I work two very different jobs - from DJing to being a wellness person. So sleep is crucial; it makes me function way better throughout my day and gives me sustained energy to get through all the night events.
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We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the world, because he had remained with us. As we walked about the city, or traveled to different cities and countries, it was not the beautiful and interesting things around us that attracted us. Not even Rome's wonderful monuments and precious relics seemed so important. Rather, what gave a sense of continuity to our journeying through the world for Jesus, was His Eucharistic presence in the tabernacles we found wherever we went.
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When Trump attacks the news media, he's kicking a wounded animal.
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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?
