Calamity Quotes by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blueeyes or small feet.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes… In mid-nineteenth- century France,…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin