There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.

It will feel boring when you're bingeing.

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

I shot me a nice deer, and I hung it on the den wall in my house. My neighbor comes over and he says, Did you shoot that thing? I said, Nope. He ran through the wall and got stuck. Here's your sign.

I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.

Some people do not eat cow meat. I do so, provided it's tender.