Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

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

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  Bad Ass, Men, Tragedy

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• Necesitamos viejos amigos que nos ayuden a envejecer y nuevos amigos que nos ayuden a mantenernos jóvenes.

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  Amistad, Verdadero Amigo, Real

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). “Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

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  Family, Progress, Would Be

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Si la familia fuera una fruta, sería una naranja, un círculo de secciones, unidas pero separables, cada segmento distinto.

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  Family, Children, Home

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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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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  Trust, Sacrifice, Father Son

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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

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  Friendship, Falling In Love, Real

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). “Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

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  Needs, Assumption, Blueprints

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• A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

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  Niñas, Niños, Ideas

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1981). “Growing up free: raising your child in the 80s”

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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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  Training, Democracy, States

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• 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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  Children, Home, Might

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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

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  Sex, Children, Eye

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• A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

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  Family, Quilts, Together

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• Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.

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  Feel Better, Sick, Aspirin

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1988). “Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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

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  Marriage, And Love, Boards

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• Las madres estamos aprendiendo a marcar nuestro éxito maternal con el vuelo alargado de nuestras hijas.

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  Mamá, Hija, Madre

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.

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  Women, Struggle, Issues

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• If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

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  Change, Knowledge Is Power, Clandestine

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• Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

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  Friendship, Illness, Prove

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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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  Children, Unique, Expectations

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• Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

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  Self, Apathy, Defense

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• ¿Por qué esperar vivir una larga vida si sólo vamos a llenarla de ensimismamiento, mantenimiento del cuerpo y reparación de la imagen? Cuando morimos, ¿queremos que la gente exclame: "Parecía diez años más joven", o queremos que digan: "Ha vivido una gran vida"?

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  Life, Self, Years

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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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  War, Mean, Differences

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• Me pasa con las madres lo mismo que con los hoyuelos: como yo no tengo, me fijo en todas las que tienen.

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  Mother, Doe, Dimples

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• What 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.

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  Pensar, Gente, Dar

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• Los chicos no se insinúan a las mujeres listillas.

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  Smart, Boys, Female

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