"We mothers are learning to mark our mothering……" — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
"We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight."
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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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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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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The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because,…
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her…
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most…
— Abigail Adams
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Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just…
— Christian Bale
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise…
— Honore de Balzac
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I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'
— Eric Bana
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I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm…
— Antonio Banderas
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I…
— Pat Benatar
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Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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