The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.'… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blueeyes or small feet. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
