"The family endures because it offers the truth……" — 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 the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it."
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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28 Quotes by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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