Letty Cottin Pogrebin
21 quotes
Biography
"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."
"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?"
"Work-family conflicts—the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child—would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children."
"The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy."
"Boys don't make passes at female smart asses."
"Boys don't make passes at female smart asses."
"Boys don't make passes at female smart asses."
"Boys don't make passes at female smart asses."
"No labourer in the world is expected to work for room board and love -except the housewife."
"Boys don't make passes at female smart asses."
"Boys don't make passes at female smart asses."
"Boys don't make passes at female smart asses."
"Boys don't make passes at female smart asses."
"Boys don't make passes at female smart asses."
"Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release."
"Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release."
"We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young."
"Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release."
"Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses."
"Like plowing housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs milk or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish."