Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.