Erica Jong Quotes

As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

Erica Jong

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Hands

• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Theatre

• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• Let me tell you that I love the United States.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • You
  • Tell
  • Let

• I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Want
  • Language

• It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Real
  • Song
  • Me

• I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Think
  • Person

• Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not citizens.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Career
  • Political
  • Trump

• I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Way

• Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

  

  Phillip Adams
  • Men
  • Together

• Many women try to advance in their careers by having all the answers; by being the go-to person for information and advice; or by building expertise in a particular field. However, as they progress, gain broader responsibilities, and grow into leadership roles, they realize that their span of control is too vast to be able to know every answer.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Women
  • Control
  • Progress

• To be honest, I can't wait to be a dad. I really hope that that's how the cookie crumbles for me.

  

  Lucas Neff
  • Hope
  • Dad

• There's no such thing as multitasking.

  

  Jim Loehr

• I didn't get a normal school life, and my sisters have told me so many fun stories about college, so I'm just so excited.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Life
  • School
  • Fun

• When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Business

• At Nokia, we have an internal market for ideas. There could be someone in Nokia who wants research, and they will come to us.

  

  Jan Chipchase

• When I wanna be a superhero I just wake up.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Up
  • Superhero
  • Wake Up

• Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Lost
  • Amazing
  • Youth

• I'm a spiritual person, I believe that if you read the bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you actually read it, you see the beauty, spirituality, the joy and love and what makes us godly. And then if you read between the lines of all the same books, you always see the human influence in the writing... it's not all about religiousness, it's about spirituality.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Joy

• As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Giving