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Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin,
#Children
#America
#Nation
Housework 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 Pogrebin,
#Thought
#Men
#Housework
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin,
#Love
#Work
#Reality
#Happiness
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?
Letty Cottin Pogrebin,
#Right
#Hope
#Will
#Children
#Family
#Home
#Violence
#Cure
#Force