Elizabeth Debold famous quotes

Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.
-- Elizabeth Debold

#Daughter #Mother #Growing Up

Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.
-- Elizabeth Debold

#Daughter #Mother #Winning

The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women have ever had before.
-- Elizabeth Debold

#Opportunity #Glowing #Creating

Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that someone looks at and feels about her particular situation.... Listening to learn from a daughter in adolescence, conspiring with her thoughts and feelings, keeps a mother in touch with a daughter's growing and changing self.
-- Elizabeth Debold

#Mother #Daughter #Mean

The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and experience. Within this silence, a daughter's authentic voice can also fall silent. This is the silence of perfection. This silence of perfection prevents mothers from listening and learning from their daughters.
-- Elizabeth Debold

#Daughter #Mother #Fall

Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.
-- Elizabeth Debold

#Mother #Children #Women

My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.

I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I've worked with women, I've never had an issue with women.

If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!

If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her! But then, if she wants to, what can I do? But definitely not until she's 18 years old. You know, every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.