Erica Jong Quotes

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Erica Jong

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• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Said
  • Same

• I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • See
  • Throw

• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Independent
  • Movies

• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Girl
  • Smart
  • Bookish

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Jump
  • Clothes
  • Camera

• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Time
  • Know
  • Trouble

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Future
  • Past
  • Change

• I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good And Bad

• Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religious
  • Violence
  • Religion

• If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • People
  • Live
  • Government

• When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Happy
  • See
  • Face

• To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Meaningful

• I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Kind
  • Pleasure
  • Guilty

• It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Stop

• A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Moment

• I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

  

  Bruce Jackson
  • World
  • Friends
  • Die

• When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

  

  Leila Aboulela
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Father

• Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Friends
  • Cheerful
  • Terrified