Erica Jong Quotes

Art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

Erica Jong

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• Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Work
  • Together
  • Dark

• I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Parents
  • Train
  • Meet

• Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Simple
  • Yourself
  • Leader

• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • Long
  • Pretty

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Work
  • Great
  • Light

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Time
  • Music
  • Stop

• Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

  

  Ovid
  • Night
  • Woman
  • Darkness

• I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Kind

• One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Car

• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Freedom
  • You
  • Clever

• I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Achieve

• We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Fight
  • Now
  • Foot

• It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Interesting
  • Learning
  • Thought

• Art will never be able to exist without nature.

  

  Pierre Bonnard
  • Art
  • Nature

• I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Up
  • Religious
  • Identity

• You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Up
  • Career
  • Want

• I internalise things. My sorrows and joys are private.

  

  Arjun Kapoor

• In this province Sandoval laid the foundation of a town, which, by the desire of Cortes, he named Medellin, after the latter's native place, in Estremadura.

  

  Bernal Díaz del Castillo
  • Desire
  • Foundation
  • Province

• Art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Art
  • Advocacy