How Gloria Steinem and her colleagues set out to 'change the world' with Ms. Magazine

When Gloria Steinem and her colleagues founded Ms. magazine in 1972, they had big dreams and almost no resources, says co-founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin.

Founding editor of Ms magazine on Gloria Steinem: ‘The least egomaniacal person’

Letty Cottin Pogrebin says Steinem taught the younger feminist how to change a ‘man’s world’ not adjust to it
The Forward

Bert Pogrebin, attorney and partner to leading feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin, dies at 89

(JTA) — Bert Pogrebin and Letty Jo Cottin were married in 1963, barely six months after they met. Over the next 60 years, they modeled a symbiotic marriage that was not just the envy of their friends on New York’s Upper West Side, but that also had ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Letty Cottin Pogrebin wants Jews to own up to the corrosive power of shame

(JTA) — When a lawyer for Donald Trump asked E. Jean Carroll why she didn’t scream while allegedly being raped by Donald Trump, I thought of Letty Cottin Pogrebin. In her latest book, “Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy,” she writes about being ...
Maine Public

Gloria Steinem, journalist and women's rights activist, remembered

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Letty Cottin Pogrebin, who cofounded Ms. Magazine with Gloria Steinem about Steinem's legacy.
The Forward

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

A co-founder of Ms. Magazine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin has a 40-plus year reputation as an advocate for women. This year, she took a page from the feminist movement’s playbook to crusade on behalf of another marginalized group: the sick. Pogrebin’s 10th ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Letty Cottin Pogrebin Is Bracing for Feminism’s Next Battles

Letty Cottin Pogrebin remembers the winter day in 1973 when the United States Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that found a woman’s right to an abortion Constitutionally protected. “We shrieked, we yelled, we hollered — we jumped ...