Quotes by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

Family

Quilts

Together

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

Boys

Girl

Ideas

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Happiness

Love

Reality

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

America

Children

Rehabilitation

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

Apathy

Defense

Self

As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son’s future are counting on me.

Men

Mother

Son

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask … Why do we need Everything?

Assumption

Blueprints

Needs

Boys don’t make passes at female smart asses.

Boys

Female

Smart

Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Children

Rights

Shopping

Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child’s approval, more alert to the child’s emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child’s suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon–the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.

Children

Emotional

Giving

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America

And Love

Animal

Apathy

Aspirin

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Bad Ass

Believe

Blueprints

Boards

Body

Boys

Change

Childhood

Children

Christian

Clandestine

Community

Competent

Daughter

Death

Defense

Democracy

Differences

Dimples

Doctors

Doe

Emotional

Expectations

Expecting

Eye

Falling In Love

Family

Father

Father Son

Feel Better

Female

Feminism

Firsts

Friends

Friendship

Girl

Giving

Grandparent

Happiness

Home

Ideas

Illness

Issues

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Quotes by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son’s future are counting on me.

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask … Why do we need Everything?

Boys don’t make passes at female smart asses.

Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

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