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Abdication Quote by Erica Jong

“Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.” quote by Erica Jong — Download Open image

“Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.”

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“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really…

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Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.

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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to…

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“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires as men, as avid for sexual fulfilment and power as men, but held back by the twin myths of good-girlism and sentimental sisterhood. Though she is perhaps too sanguine about women quickly overcoming their fear of…

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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.

Emily Dickinson

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay…

David Cannadine

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often…

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It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to…

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

Charles M. Blow

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Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from…

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends…

Mikhail Bakunin

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The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating…

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who…

Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.

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Fulton J. Sheen

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