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Own Quotes by Erica Jong
- My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I…
- No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How…
- The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
- 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…
- At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
- 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…
- Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life.…
- Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
- I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are…
- Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.
- Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty…
- All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know…
- The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
- You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov