“People tend to be exquisitely precise when describing pain. We don't just say it hurts, we say it throbs or aches; it's a burning, wrenching, gnawing sensation; it's sharp or dull; it chafes; it stings. But where pain specifies, joy… — 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
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
