Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.