Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.