Erica Jong Quotes

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion?

Erica Jong

• Problem
• Fashion
• Passion
• Woman
• Adornment

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• Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Know

• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Want

• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Want
  • Gossip

• Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Family
  • Know
  • Run

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Ride

• When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Acting
  • Kid

• Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Career

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Different
  • Result
  • Using

• As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Military
  • Problems

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Performances

• The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Teachers

• I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Work
  • New
  • Head

• Surviving is the only glory in war.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • War
  • Glory
  • Surviving

• I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Me
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Back
  • Congress

• There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Future
  • Pretty
  • Running

• A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side, The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Jesus

• Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion?

  

  Erica Jong
  • Problem
  • Fashion
  • Passion