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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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.
women struggle issues
I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.
movie self life-experience
Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.
grandparent quality body
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.