Quotes by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“When 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 Christian symbol.”

“When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.”

“Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.”

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

“Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.”

“No labourer in the world is expected to work for room board and love -except the housewife.”

“Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.”

“Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.”

“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 break...”

“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?”

“Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.”

“No labourer in the world is expected to work for room board and love -except the housewife.”

“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 breakf...”

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

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

“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 ...”

“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 de...”

“Jewish women in second-wave feminism helped to provide the theoretical underpinnings and models for radical action that were seized on and imitated throughout the United States and abroad. Their ar...”