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…

— 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 -…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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-…

— 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

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

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

It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin