Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Letty Cottin Pogrebin received an Emmy Award, a recognition that signals her reach extended into broadcast work as well as the written word.
She was born on June 9, 1939, in Queens, New York. Her education took her through the Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Jamaica High School before she went on to study at Brandeis University. Those years of schooling laid the groundwork for a career she would build as a journalist, writer, and feminist.
As a journalist and writer, Pogrebin worked across more than one medium, and the Emmy Award she received stands as a concrete marker of that range. Her identity as a feminist ran alongside her work as a journalist, and both roles shaped what she produced and where she directed her attention throughout her career as a U.S. citizen engaged in public life.
The Emmy Award remains one of the most clearly documented recognitions attached to her name, and it points to broadcast work as one of the forms her output took. That she was also a journalist and a writer in the broader sense — someone educated at Brandeis University, shaped by schools in New York, and committed to feminist work — rounds out the picture the available record supports.
Quotes by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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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. In recent years, however, birthdays have been more like medical checkups—no fun at all but necessary if one intends to stay alive from year to year.
I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples. Because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.
When men are oppressed it's a tragedy, when women are oppressed it's a tradition.
Control is a big issue when you’re sick. It’s the first thing you lose – other losses come later.
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.
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.
Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
