Letty Cottin Pogrebin



Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born June 9, 1939) is an American writer, journalist and feminist advocate. She was one of the founding editors of Ms. magazine, and a co-founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus.

Family and Politics (1983)

 * Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
 * Ch. 6


 * America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
 * Ch. 3


 * 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?
 * Ch. 1


 * 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.
 * Ch. 6


 * The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.
 * Ch. 1

Quotes about Letty Cottin Pogrebin

 * Jewish women in second-wave feminism helped to provide the theoretical underpinnings and models for radical action that were seized on and imitated throughout the United States and abroad. Their articles and books became classics of the movement and led the way into new arenas of cultural and political understanding in academe, politics, and grassroots organizing. Even a partial honor roll of Jewish women's liberation pioneers must include such figures as Shulamith Firestone, Ellen Willis, Robin Morgan, Alix Kates Shulman, Naomi Weisstein, Heather Booth, Susan Brownmiller, Marilyn Webb, Meredith Tax, Andrea Dworkin, Linda Gordon, Ellen DuBois, Ann Snitow, Marge Piercy, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and Vivian Gornick. Despite historians' acknowledgment of the salience of Jewish women in earlier social movements, their prominence within radical feminism failed to attract much attention.
 * Joyce Antler Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (2020)