In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.
Letty Cottin PogrebinWe need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Letty Cottin PogrebinWhat I often say to people who are quick to say Iโm not a feminist is if you think youโre not a feminist, give it all back.
Letty Cottin PogrebinI feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin