Letty Cottin Pogrebin on the First Women's Seder in New York (1976)
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"In 1976, we started small. At our first seder, thirteen of us sat in a circle at Phyllis Chesler's apartment and introduced ourselves as we would every year thereafter, by our matrilineage: `I am Letty, daughter of Ceil, who was the daughter of Jenny.'"
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"...Esther asked us who our real mothers are, who comforts and nurtures us now?"
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"One woman said Martha Graham, the dancer, mothered her goals; another credited her art teacher; I named my husband, Bert, realizing quite suddenly that his unconditional love had replaced my mother's."
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