Erica Jong Quotes

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

Erica Jong

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• If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.

  

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• Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  

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• 'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.

  

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• I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

  

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• I don't think good and evil are polarized.

  

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• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

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• I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

  

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• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

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• I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

  

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• I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.

  

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• I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.

  

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• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  

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• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  

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• I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

  

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• Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

  

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• I am very shy with people I don't know.

  

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• I don't believe everything Bill tells me about his players. Had they been that good, they'd not only have won the European Cup but the Ryder Cup, the Boat Race and even the Grand National.

  

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• We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.

  

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• The trouble with the world today is philosophical: only the right philosophy can save us. But this party plagiarizes some of my ideas, mixes them with the exact opposite-with religionists, anarchists and every intellectual misfit and scum they can find-and call themselves libertarians and run for office.

  

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• The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.

  

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• That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Mistake
  • Sex
  • Generations