From the rocking horse to the rocking chair,
friendship keeps teaching us about being human.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Topics: Friendship
Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Topics: Children
Friendships aren’t perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Topics: Perfection, Realistic Expectations, Friendship
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable – each segment distinct.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Topics: Family
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Topics: Friendship
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