Children Quotes by Erica Jong

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

— Erica Jong

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

— Erica Jong

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

— Erica Jong

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

— Erica Jong

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by…

— Erica Jong

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

— Erica Jong

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

I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing…

— Erica Jong

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

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and…

— Erica Jong

Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful…

— Erica Jong

I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I…

— Erica Jong

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.…

— Erica Jong

“Sometimes it seems both our kids and our parents were smarter than we were. We fell somewhere between our parents' thirties idealism…

— Erica Jong

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

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

“[Daughter], I want to release you. IF you hate me or want to reject me, I understand. If you curse me, then…

— Erica Jong

“Why are women so ungenerous to other women? Is it because we have been tokens for so long? Or is there a…

— Erica Jong