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1 " When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol. "
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin , Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America
2 " When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. "
3 " Boys don't make passes at female smart asses. "
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin
4 " People tend to be exquisitely precise when describing pain. We don't just say it hurts, we say it throbs or aches; it's a burning, wrenching, gnawing sensation; it's sharp or dull; it chafes; it stings. But where pain specifies, joy generalizes. It was great! we say. Terrific! Beautiful! Fantastic! "
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin ,
5 " Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. "
6 " Now I think people today should envy any of us who lived through the early seventies. It was such a time of hope and possibility, and ferment, and progress, and change, and media attention, and brilliant activist women everywhere you turned. "
