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...
reality said force
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
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.
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 home might
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
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.
falling-in-love real profound
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
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.
family progress would-be
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
bad-ass men tragedy
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
true-friend real old-friends
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.