I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.
Letty Cottin PogrebinHousework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
Letty Cottin PogrebinIf 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 PogrebinFriends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
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