Quotes by Letty Pogrebin

• America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
• 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.
• Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
• 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?