Erica Jong Quotes About Daughters

Quotes about: Daughters

• My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Wings

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

• What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Mean

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin

• The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Women

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

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Freedom, Giving

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin

• Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. And we can no longer afford the guilt we feel at not being our mothers. We cannot afford any guilt that pulls us back to the past. We have to grow up, whether we want to or not. We have to stop blaming men and mothers and seize every second of our lives with passion. We can no longer afford to waste our creativity. We cannot afford spiritual laziness.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Spiritual

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

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, My Daughter

• My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Dirty

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

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Half, Equations

  Erica Jong (1985). “Parachutes & kisses”, Signet

• I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Sex, Ideas

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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