A Quote by Erica Jong

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
American - Novelist
Born: March 26, 1942

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Rick Perlstein

My generation of women was the last for whom marriage and a family were the goal.

Jane Hawking

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

James Lee Burke

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

George Bernard Shaw

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

Jay Inslee

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

Max Gluckman

My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much tougher issues of income equality. If they show the leadership they have demonstrated in the last few elections, they can bring changes even greater than my generation achieved.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

Frank Pittman

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

Ellison Onizuka

Taking bold climate action now has the potential to unleash the full power of business and at the same time lift millions of people out of poverty. We're the first generation to recognize this and the last generation that will have this opportunity.

Richard Branson

Each generation tries to disassociate itself with the last generation. And then, about three decades later, people kind of start to maybe appreciate what you might have done a while back that you don't even realize you did.

Michael McDonald

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

Bob Dylan

Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.

William Gibson

Every generation thinks things are happening that have never happened before. Every generation of people thinks we're in the last days. Every generation's filled with pessimists. But when you have the Millennials generation, a majority of which have never had a job - you might even be able to put the period there: "Have never had a job, period" - or never had a job in a healthy economy.

Rush Limbaugh

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Annie Dillard

There's the generation that made the rules, the generation that codified them. The generation that broke them - that's mine. The generation that laughed at them - that's Tarantino's. And now there's a generation that doesn't know that there were any.

Paul Schrader

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