Erica Jong Quotes About Motherhood

Quotes about: Motherhood

• Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

  Erica Jong

  Mom, Mother, Children

• I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Motherhood, Should

  "The Report From Baghdad and Pension Funding Troubles". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. June 27, 2003.

• In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

  Erica Jong

  Passion, Divorce, Motherhood

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.15, Penguin

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