4 quotes
"We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters’ lengthening flight."
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Growth
"We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young."
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Growth
"As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son’s future are counting on me."
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Responsibility
"If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles."
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Family