Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born June 9, 1939) is an American author, journalist, nationally-known lecturer, and social justice activist. Her tenth book, How to Be A Friend to A Friend Who’s Sick, will be published in April, 2013.
A co-founder with Gloria Steinem of Ms. Magazine, a mass market feminist alternative to traditional women’s media, Pogrebin also has contributed hundreds of articles and op-eds to a wide variety of print publications, including The New York Times, The Nation, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Newsday, Ms., Harpers Bazaar, Family Circle, MORE, Travel & Leisure, as well as online media such as Huffington Post and Forward.com.
Among Pogrebin’s ten books are, most recently, Three Daughters, a novel, and Getting Over Getting Older, and Deborah, Golda, and Me, both memoirs. She is also the author of Family Politics, Among Friends, Growing Up Free, Getting Yours, and How To Make It In A Man’s World. She is the editor of Stories for Free Children, and served as the Editorial Consultant on Marlo Thomas’ award-winning children’s projects, Free To Be, You and Me, and Free To Be A Family.
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“We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters’ lengthening flight. When they need us, we are fiercely there. But we do not need them to need us—or to become us.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“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.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“Work-family conflicts—the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child—would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“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.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)