Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

• When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition.

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  Tags in Oppressed, Tradition

• Lifestyles and s*x roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

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  Tags in Lifestyle, Parents

• Boys don’t make passes at female smart-asses.

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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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Children, Family

• We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

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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.

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  Tags in Housework, Men

• 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?

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  Tags in Conflict, Violence

Letty Cottin Pogrebin (11)

Birth:	9th June, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author, Journalist, Lecturer

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