Erica Jong Quotes
I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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If all else fails, birdie the last.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.
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Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
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I told you when I came I was a stranger.
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No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.
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Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.
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I am thrilled. I love movies. I don't have those nagging, regretful feelings about either of them, it is a miracle.
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We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.
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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
