As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.
A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin
A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.
- 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
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…
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
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 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…
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
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.
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