The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her “job” is that the children’s growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother’s indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

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

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

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

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

Boys don’t make passes at female smart asses.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her “job” is that the children’s growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother’s indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual liberation, but the consensus of Americans is that what tears families apart is unemployment, inflation, and financial worries.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let ‘born again’ patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Romance

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

Mothers remember a child’s first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don’t want to live there.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody – doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Control is a big issue when you’re sick. It’s the first thing you lose – other losses come later.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

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