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. Letty Cottin Pogrebin More Quotes by Letty Cottin Pogrebin More Quotes From Letty Cottin Pogrebin When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. Letty Cottin Pogrebin bad-ass tragedy men We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. Letty Cottin Pogrebin true-friend real friendship If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. Letty Cottin Pogrebin family home children 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. Letty Cottin Pogrebin father-son sacrifice trust 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. Letty Cottin Pogrebin training democracy states If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. Letty Cottin Pogrebin progress family would-be 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? Letty Cottin Pogrebin home might children No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife. Letty Cottin Pogrebin boards marriage and-love Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. Letty Cottin Pogrebin falling-in-love real friendship Boys don't make passes at female smart asses. Letty Cottin Pogrebin smart female boys Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. Letty Cottin Pogrebin eye children sex A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it. Letty Cottin Pogrebin girl boys ideas If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged. Letty Cottin Pogrebin clandestine knowledge-is-power change 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 aspirin sick feel-better Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'? Letty Cottin Pogrebin self life years 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 scandal romance running 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 differences war mean 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 feminism worry believe Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies. Letty Cottin Pogrebin life-experience movie self 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 dimples mother doe
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