Erica Jong Quotes
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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I don't really go out at all.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.
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I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.
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Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
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I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
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Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.
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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
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EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will.
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There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
