Erica Jong Quotes
In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
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Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
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Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,And tempted her out of her gloom.
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The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.
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'You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?' Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. 'Well, a little does no harm.'
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The essential difference, which we meet in entering the realm of spirit and mind, seems to hang round the word 'Ought.'
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Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
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When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
