It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.
Letty Cottin PogrebinLifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
Letty Cottin PogrebinWe can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.
Letty Cottin PogrebinIf the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
Letty Cottin PogrebinLike 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.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin