Erica Jong Quotes
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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My first concert was 'Nsync.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened.
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I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.
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The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.
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I don't believe the government should determine what a woman does in this area any more than it should tell a chief executive how to run a company. Personal and family matters, relationships between doctors and patients should not be within the purview of government.
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What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
