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Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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?
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
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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.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
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We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
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Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.
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I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.
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Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.
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I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.
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We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
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Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.
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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
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Illness is the proving ground of friendship.
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If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
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When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
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Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.
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