"If the family were a boat, it would……" — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
"If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles."
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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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Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be…
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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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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am…
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Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with…
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Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing…
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
— Bernard Baruch
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car,…
— Elayne Boosler
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Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no…
— Jeff Bridges
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive…
— Warren Buffett
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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die…
— Coco Chanel
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
— Woody Allen
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for…
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