If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
Letty Cottin PogrebinAmerica is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
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 PogrebinI feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.
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