Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

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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
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.

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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.

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

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I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

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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.

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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.

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Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin