Letty Cottin PogrebinAlthough Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. ✨ Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). Family politics: love and power o… ▶375LovePoliticsTruth
Letty Cottin PogrebinFriendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.365Life
Letty Cottin PogrebinWe mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight. ✨ Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). Family politics: love and power on an intimate fr… ▶282LovePolitics
Letty Cottin PogrebinIf the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ✨ Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). Family politics… ▶285LovePolitics
Letty Cottin PogrebinIf 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 Pogrebi… ▶275HopeLovePolitics
Letty Cottin PogrebinAmerica is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. ✨ Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). F… ▶275LovePolitics
Letty Cottin PogrebinThe 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 s… ▶287DeathHumanityLife
Letty Cottin PogrebinA toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it. ✨ Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1981). Growing up free: raising your child in the 80s245Thought
Letty Cottin PogrebinFriends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do. ✨ Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). Among Friends: Who We Like, Why W… ▶246Reflection
Letty Cottin PogrebinBoys don't make passes at female smart asses.2810Thought
Letty Cottin PogrebinFriends can be said to fall in like with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. ✨ Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, … ▶2810Love
Letty Cottin PogrebinWhat 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.202HumanityThought
Letty Cottin PogrebinIf knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.202Politics
Letty Cottin PogrebinHousework 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 (198… ▶152LovePoliticsThought
Letty Cottin PogrebinIf the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. ✨ Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). Family politics: love and power on an intimate… ▶176LovePolitics
Letty Cottin PogrebinWhen 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 b… ▶198LovePolitics
Letty Cottin PogrebinWe need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. ✨ Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do w… ▶144Truth
Letty Cottin PogrebinA family stitched together with love seldom unravels.156Love
Letty Cottin PogrebinWhen 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 Christia… ▶135Politics
Letty Cottin PogrebinWhen men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.1510Sadness
