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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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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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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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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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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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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At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'
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What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.
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You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.
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My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.
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Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.
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So many times, my mom would say, 'It's not too late to go law school.'
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Samuel Eto'o I know well. We see each other often; we send each other messages, and we call each other. It's good.
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I've always enjoyed fashion and dressing up for things, whether it's high fashion or play fashion.
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My husband Chris, the thing he likes most about me is that I'm very positive and easily very happy.
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No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It's not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.
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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?
