If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of fathers in traditional households: the fathers of sons and the fathers of daughters. These two kinds of… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Work-family conflicts - the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child - would not be forced upon… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual liberation, but the… — 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
