Loretta “Letty” Cottin Pogrebin (b.1939) is an American feminist journalist and social activist. She is the author of numerous books and magazine articles on women and employment, feminism, the psychology and sociology of child-rearing, women in politics, and the role of the women in the family.
Born in Queens, New York, Pogrebin grew up in a religious Jewish family. After attending Brandeis University, she worked in publishing for ten years before joining the women’s movement.
In 1971, Pogrebin founded the liberal feminist magazine Ms. and the National Women’s Political Caucus with Gloria Steinem and other social activists. She also wrote “The Working Woman” column 1970–80 for The Ladies Home Journal.
Pogrebin is the author of several books on the subjects of women in business and non-sexist child-rearing. Her notable works include How to Make It in a Man’s World (1970,) Among Friends: Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do with Them (1986,) Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America (1991,) and the novel Three Daughters (2003.)
Pogrebin was profiled in the documentary film Makers: Women Who Make America (2013.)
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We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Topics: Friendship
From the rocking horse to the rocking chair,
friendship keeps teaching us about being human.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Topics: Children
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable – each segment distinct.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Topics: Family
Friendships aren’t perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Topics: Realistic Expectations, Perfection, Friendship
Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Topics: Friendship
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