Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Loretta "Letty" Cottin Pogrebinis an American author, journalist, lecturer, and social activist. She earned a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in English and American literature, and worked for the publishing company Bernard Geis Associates as their director of publicity and later their vice president. She also wrote a column for Ladies Home Journal called “The Working Woman," and was an editorial consultant for the TV special Free to Be... You and Mefor which she earned an Emmy...
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true-friend real old-friends
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
bad-ass men tragedy
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
family progress would-be
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
family circles orange
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
falling-in-love real profound
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
trust sacrifice abuse
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.
children unique expectations
The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.
perfection perfect expecting
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
smart boys female
Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.
feel-better sick aspirin
Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.
children shopping rights
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
children america nations
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
mom daughter mother
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
family quilts together
A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.