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.
Letty Cottin PogrebinIf the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.
Letty Cottin PogrebinWhen men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
Letty Cottin PogrebinIt 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 Pogrebin