Letty Cottin Pogrebin > Quotes

“When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.”
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America

“Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.”
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.”
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Deborah, Golda and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America

“People tend to be exquisitely precise when describing pain. We don't just say it hurts, we say it throbs or aches; it's a burning, wrenching, gnawing sensation; it's sharp or dull; it chafes; it stings. But where pain specifies, joy generalizes. It was great! we say. Terrific! Beautiful! Fantastic! ”
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Three Daughters

“Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.”
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Mark Twain who said, “The only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.”
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy

“My best years aren't behind me; they're within me.”
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin, How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick

“Now I think people today should envy any of us who lived through the early seventies. It was such a time of hope and possibility, and ferment, and progress, and change, and media attention, and brilliant activist women everywhere you turned.”
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“a whisperer of Yiddish—the lingua franca spoken by Jewish immigrants when they didn’t want their American children to understand what they were saying”
― Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy