Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. — 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… — 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
The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron. — 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
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for… — 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
