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Erica Jong
"If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move."
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Erica Jong
#Moving Quotes
#Careers Quotes
#Dying Quotes
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“I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.”
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“Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ... every time the government uses its money or its power to favor this group or that ... the net result is such a web of supports, subsidies, interventions and controls that it is almost impossible for a nation to find its way back into a dynamic system of really free enterprise.”
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“I'm not in politics. I'm really not a public figure. But I'm trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings.”
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“It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.”
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“It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.”
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“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?”
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“Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it.”
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“I think more about clicking the teeth, because I have to line them up just exactly right, and then I slam them down so they exactly meet. And I think I worry about that too much. I'm not thinking about remembering. Like, "Wow, that was a great moment went my son went trick-or-treating": click. "What was I supposed to remember?" That sort of thing.”
