Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

“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?”

“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 breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs milk or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?”

“That’s the moon,’ I said.‘Gran likes it like that,’ said Lettie Hempstock.‘But it was a crescent moon yesterday. And now it’s full. And it was raining. It is raining. But now it’s not.’‘Gran likes the full moon to shine on this side of the house. She says it’s restful, and it reminds her of when she was a girl,’ said Lettie. ‘And you don’t trip on the stairs.”