"We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight."

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Source : Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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“I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.”
“By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.”
“If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?”
“The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...”
“It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.”
“We were lucky if we got two takes out of a scene in the Rock 'N' Roll High School. But the Ramones did get a lot of material cut out. I think Marky Ramone calls Mr. McGree "Mr. McGlube." But that was sort of endearing and charming, and made you just love the Ramones even more. Sometimes those flubs work in favor of the filmmakers. They just couldn't get out more than one sentence in a row. It was just kind of weird. I think they were just nervous.”
“I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace -- all we need is a fighting chance.”
“Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil.”

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