Authors

Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

Best Quotes by Letty Cottin Pogrebin (Top 8)

  1. When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
  2. Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.
  3. We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
  4. If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
  5. Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
  6. No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.
  7. Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
  8. Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.