Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems both our kids and our parents were smarter than we were. We fell somewhere between our parents' thirties idealism… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“[Daughter], I want to release you. IF you hate me or want to reject me, I understand. If you curse me, then… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Why are women so ungenerous to other women? Is it because we have been tokens for so long? Or is there a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
![“[Daughter], I want to release you. IF you hate me or want to reject me, I understand. If you curse me, then want to atone, I also understand. I expect to be your home plate: kicked, scuffed, but always returned to. I expect to be the earth from which you spring. But if I release you too much, what…” quote by Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/41b/erica-jong-445_children_daughter-i-want-to-release-you-if-you-ha_3158945.jpg)
