Letty Cottin Pogrebin quote: "Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release."

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small fee...
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN

Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love o...
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN

No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife.
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are th...
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN

No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love - except the housewife
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and f...
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN

I was very enthusiastic about that. The Meier building was maybe not such a great place to show art....
HENRI LOYRETTE

If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place f...
BERNIE SIEGEL

Life is neither about expecting perfection from each other, nor waiting for the perfect moment. It i...
SHAFEEQ QURESHI

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
OGDEN NASH

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and i...
WILLIAM JAMES

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and le...
LETTY COTTIN

The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
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That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER

We are part of Life as a whole, yet a whole within ourselves. Like a multi-faceted diamond, birthed ...
SARA DANN

For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me...
AIMEE BENDER

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew t...
NELLIE BLY

If you wait for perfect moment, it may never come & the precious moment will pass away. Don’t wait...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

Great use they have, when in the hands
Of one like me, who understands,
Who understands the ...
CHARLES CHURCHILL

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because th...
VERONICA ROTH

Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws.
KIERRA C.T. BANKS

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection....
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

One great concern that plagues very ambitious people is this: in the end, they’ll get all the prec...
UFUOMA APOKI

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and preciou...
RANDOLPH SILLIMAN BOURNE

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and preciou...
RANDOLPH S. BOURNE

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY ADAMS

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
DONALD MILLER

Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If I now want to add something of my own (i.e., inner...
WILLIAM LAW

Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS

I know the very great things I shall wroth in this precious life,because my beliefs & I are one.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

All great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECK

I was all over the place. My release point was all over the place, and I couldn't make key pitches.
ZACH DUKE

The concert is filled with great music and wonderful voices from all religions, ... And for me, it's...
D. DAVIS

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing...
RANDOLPH BOURNE

Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice ...
ERNST JüNGER

Leaders create awareness in their followers about the great potentials they carry and how to release...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR

It's the first time I've beaten Maria, so I'm very happy. Everyone was expecting her to win and no o...
JANETH JEPKOSGEI

One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll!
MARCUS MAYO

Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN

Characters are pictured very simply in Moebius' drawings, yet they have a sort of atmosphere around ...
HAYAO MIYAZAKI

It was the perfect package for me. They have a great academics program, good soccer program and a go...
CAITLIN MISKEL

If God created a Perfect world, we would all be looking for problems, since he created an imperfect ...
EMILE JOBITY

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never per...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

‎"More Precious Than Silver or Gold, Are the True Friendships You Hold." ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN

There's a disconnect between what people are doing and the reason for buying stock in the first plac...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

No one has asked for his (scholarship) release. I'm not naive enough to think they'll all return, bu...
ANDY KENNEDY

My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH

Man can never be perfect in all spheres of life,for as he pursues perfection in one sphere of life,i...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

Overall, it was a huge success for me. It was a huge honor for me to be a two-time Olympian and have...
JEREMY BLOOM

God creates humans not for perfection, but through imperfection that makes them perfect
THANH LUU

The two were so intertwined with each other. They were perfect for each other and it was a great mar...
IVAN GOLDE

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing...
RANDOLPH S. BOURNE

Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some pr...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die ...
JOHN OWEN

The very word perfection is full of flaw,because it can't exist. Or is that what perfection is? Flaw...
ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR

Perfection is a direction, not a place
HENRIK KNIBERG

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
CAROLINA HERRERA

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pro...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pr...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at th...
BETH MOORE

The day was awesome but Hayride is a very, very challenging hill, one of the most challenging in the...
BILL REICHELT

There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it ver...
DONALD JOHANSON

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS

It's a very versatile group. We have three great backs and (the fly offense) is perfect for them. Th...
LEVON HAYNES

There are friendships that are greater than family bonds, but they are very rare
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY

I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly t...
SHANNON L. ALDER

Did you see more glass?
J.D. SALINGER

She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER

I'm not satisfied. I was definitely expecting more information to come out at the trial. It is still...
ROSEMARY DILLARD

Remember, you are not aspiring for perfection, Bombshell. You are aspiring for progress, one step at...
AMBER HURDLE

Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have en...
BETHANY HAMILTON

What is home? My favorite definition is "a safe place," a place where one is free from attack, a pla...
GLADYS M. HUNT

No one is perfect except two people : those who are dead and those who have not been born yet.
VIKRANT PARSAI

How very unlike are poodles and greyhounds! Yet they are of one species.
ADAM SEDGWICK

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never per...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

He was the picture of perfection. We just knew he'd make a perfect trainer for some of our horses.
GRETCHEN JACKSON

The world is not a perfect place and never will be,all we can do is hope for humanity
K.L

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... T...
R.D. LAING

Church is not for those who lived in a perfect life but it is for the people who admitted that they ...
DARWIN ARAMAN ERGINA

As for equities as a whole, we are not expecting a great performance over the next 12 months.
JAMIE SANDISON

They're doing great. I was joking with them that all they needed to do was run a perfect race, and t...
DANA HOUSE

Kids are very resilient, and they bounce back. They are fine, but this was a great win for them.
JEFF HERRICK

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expe...
DONALD MILLER

They are expecting funny stuff from me...perhaps they do not know! how broken, Lonely and dispersed ...
MEHTAB ALAM KHAN

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
JAMES STEPHENS

You do not have to be perfect to be great. In fact the very seed of greatness lies in our imperfecti...
JANINE LATTIMORE

In a perfect world, religious fools will kill each other off for bragging rights, which forces me to...
BOBBY W. MILLER

My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women,...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

Well, we're not claiming Hollywood perfection yet.
ELIZABETH SANJENIS

No one saw this coming. Now they know who we are and we are going to have to come back and work even...
DAVE VANDIVER

Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN

You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All...
GASTON LEROUX

riley: give me a romantic comedy any day.
rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you? KERI ARTHUR

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

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Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

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