Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.
It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.
In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!
[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.
The Hebrew language. . . is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time. . . . It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Sometimes the things you plan for and hope for don't end up coming through and the thing you weren't really thinking about is the opportunity that kind of just blows your mind.
Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.