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...
needs assumption blueprints
Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?
mother father women
The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.
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.
loss issues sick
Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.
believe doctors sick
It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.
memories want lanes
I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.
mother children firsts
Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.
mother dimples way
I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.
party kids childhood
I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.
war mean differences
We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.
running romance scandal
Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.
movie self life-experience
Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.
men competent activity
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.
children america nations
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.