"Housework is the only activity at which men……" — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
"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."
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28 Quotes by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Letty Cottin Pogrebin has 28 quotes on this site.
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A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.
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When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
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We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
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If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable -…
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A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.
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When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets…
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When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House…
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What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re…
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Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
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America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
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If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse…
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The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because,…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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