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Erica Jong Quotes

Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.

Erica Jong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 26, 1942

Topics

Me Husband Talking You Hug Scent

Makeup does a lot for your confidence. When I put makeup on, I walk taller. I smile more. I feel good. I know I look prettier. Even if I just put day makeup on.

Maye Musk

Smile Good Confidence Walk Day Look

Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.

John Lewis

Hope Lose Never Sense Hopeful

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

John Hughes

Day School Doctor High School Movies

I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.

Michael Ian Black

Music I Am Bad Standards Anything

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

Stana Katic

Name You Bad Grandmother Protect

When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always knew that I wanted to have a future in the performing arts. I had no idea that it was going to be acting in movies.

Tom Holland

Future Acting Movies Always Arts

The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon - no pun intended - and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do.

Robbie Robertson

You Choice Place Rebellion Band Get

You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

Roelof Botha

Yourself You Lucky Position Put

It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right.

Rosamund Pike

Baby Interesting Rules More Right

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Train New Run Railway Engine Would

I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young man for his seat. He replied, 'There's one over there'. I said, 'Please', and when he refused I poured my water over him.

Miriam Margolyes

Water Man Waiting Train Said Young

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

William Osler

Buy Books Read Easier Than Simpler