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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
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 9
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If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
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If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
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Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.
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I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.
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Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
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When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
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Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.
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What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.
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