Erica Jong Quotes
Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
Quotes to Explore
-
I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
-
I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
-
I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
-
Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
-
People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
-
My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.
-
I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
-
I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.
-
By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.
-
I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
-
Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks.
-
Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.
-
To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.
-
There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly, trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade to dream in a bedlam of vegetables.
-
Perfection is a disease of a nation.
-
The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
-
The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.
-
I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.
-
When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.
-
... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
-
It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
-
Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
