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Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: June 9
Author
Journalist
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Queens
New York
Apathy
Powerless
Defense
Self

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The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her job is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother's indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.
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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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If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.
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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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Friends can be said to fall in like with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
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Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.
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When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
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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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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.
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Friends seem to be like aspirin we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.
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Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?
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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
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Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.
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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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If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
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I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.
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I 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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A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.
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We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
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Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
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