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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The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.
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My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.
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...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
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Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.
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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?
