What I would like to give my ...

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.
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

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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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 Erica Jong
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.
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 Erica Jong
We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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 Erica Jong
I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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 Erica Jong
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
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 Erica Jong