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

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

Erica Jong
Art, Children, Thinking
Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.62, Open Road Media

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

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

Erica Jong
Children, Women, May
Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.108, Penguin

I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.

Erica Jong
Children, Government, Self

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've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

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

I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

Erica Jong
Children, Writing, Thinking
Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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