"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?" -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born June 9, 1939) is an American writer and journalist. (The name Pogrebin is stressed on the first syllable: POH-grebin.) She graduated from Brandeis University and became a writer and feminist advocate in the early 1970s. In 1971, she was one of the founding editors of Ms. Magazine, where she worked for 17 years, and a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus. She was also a consultant on Free to Be You and Me and edited Stories for Free Children.
Pogrebin is a well-known advocate for feminist, Jewish, and Jewish-feminist causes, as well as a political activist on topics such as hunger, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and African American-Jewish relations. Her publications include Getting Yours: How to Make the System Work for the Working Woman; Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the 80s; Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America,; Three Daughters and the controversial and ground breaking, Anti-Semitism in the Women's Movement
"Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.""America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.""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."
Pogrebin has written in favour of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict led by Richard Goldstone. She has criticised certain hardline Jewish leaders (what she calls the "Jews in the Israel-right-or-wrong mafia") vilifying and instigating a 'McCarthy-like' campaign against Richard Goldstone, who himself is a "proud Jew and declared Zionist".