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

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic fam…

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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 le…

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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