Erica Jong Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

  Erica Jong

  Baby, Sleep, Perfection

• Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

  Erica Jong

  Jobs, Parent, Different

• Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.

  Erica Jong

  Children, Ideas, People

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

• we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

  Erica Jong

  Family, Home, Heart

  Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

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