I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

So, " he asked. "How's death?""Hard, " she said. "It just keeps going.

Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

I think there is still pressure to marry. I think there is still pressure to have children. If you're middle or upper class, those pressures exist at a later age now.

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.

My family's the most important thing in my life.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

I have never been a fashionista or someone who puts a lot of thought into what I wear, and I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can.

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim