It's highly likely that what you're doing is indeed influenced by your Jewish background.
I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.
I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.
I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.
I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live. "
I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
The purpose of the Reichsautobahnen is to become the roads of Adolf Hitler.
My life has taught me to be more curious than afraid.
I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.