Elizabeth Debold 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

  Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press

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• 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

  Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press

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• 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

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• Criar a una hija es un acto extremadamente político en esta cultura. Las madres se encuentran en una situación sin salida con sus hijas: si les enseñan simplemente a desenvolverse en un mundo moldeado por los hombres y los deseos masculinos, traicionan el potencial de sus hijas, pero si no lo hacen, las dejan a la deriva en un mundo hostil y sin estrategias de supervivencia.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Mother Daughter, Men, Winning

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• 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

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• 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

  Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press

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