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Being Quotes by Erica Jong
- I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma…
- Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock.…
- As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to…
- We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
- Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
- No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race…
- When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen…
More Being Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong