All Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes
- A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it. Boy
- When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. Ass
- We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight. Daughter
- If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. Circle
- A family stitched together with love seldom unravels. Family
- When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed,… Abuse
- When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to… American
- What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it… All
- Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. Choose
- Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else. Activity
- America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. Afraid
- If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with… Children
- 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,… Accepted
- If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. Boat
- Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. All
- Boys don't make passes at female smart asses. Ass
- Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do. Aspirin
- Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. Children
- Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. Blue
- No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife. Board
- Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter… Beer
- If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged. Change
- Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. Fall
- We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. Friends
- A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. Family