Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes
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 force?
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.
I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.
Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.
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.
I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.
We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.
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 back.
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
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 be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.
If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.
Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.
Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.
Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room board and love -except the housewife.
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
