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Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

Illness is the proving ground of friendship Picture Quote #1

Friendships aren’t perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release Picture Quote #1

Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don’t really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do Picture Quote #1

When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves Picture Quote #1

Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people’s crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity Picture Quote #1

To me, a person’s identity is composed of both an ‘I’ and a ‘we.’ The ‘I’ finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a ‘we.’ America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us Picture Quote #1

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Why hope to live a long life if we’re only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim ‘She looked ten years younger,’ or do we want them to say ‘She lived a great life’? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list Picture Quote #1

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A family stitched together with love seldom unravels Picture Quote #1

The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet Picture Quote #1

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young Picture Quote #1

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A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it Picture Quote #1

When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition Picture Quote #1

Friendships aren’t perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release Picture Quote #1

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles Picture Quote #1

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies Picture Quote #1

I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does Picture Quote #1

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children Picture Quote #1

It’s smart to be friends with one’s sex partner but dumb to have sex with one’s friends Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Illness is the proving ground of friendship (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) 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 Quotes) Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don’t really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people’s crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) To me, a person’s identity is composed of both an ‘I’ and a ‘we.’ The ‘I’ finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a ‘we.’ America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) Why hope to live a long life if we’re only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim ‘She looked ten years younger,’ or do we want them to say ‘She lived a great life’? (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) 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 (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) 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 (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) 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 (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) A family stitched together with love seldom unravels (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) 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 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? (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) 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 Quotes) If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) 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 (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) It’s smart to be friends with one’s sex partner but dumb to have sex with one’s friends (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes) 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 (Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes)