What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures… ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for.… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
...I've stopped wanting to do any work at all. All work is bullshit. Everyone knows that. No matter how many telephones and extensions, no… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
“& they kind of probe about your future & if you have a will or why you bother to accumulate all that stuff or what you plan to do with your old age & aren't you scared about being put away somewhere or found on your bathroom floor dead after your downstairs neighbor has smelled you out but then of… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share
What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures… ordinariness is… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile,… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
...I am an outsider, a lesbian, a shikse. The Jewish community is not my community. But as a Jew--as a Jew in a Christian, anti-Semitic society--the Jewish community is, and will always remain, my community. Enemy and ally. — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share
...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessnessin the past, despite all the injustices that we have… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
“I numb myself and begin the body check skimming quickly unwilling to be caught in strangers' tragedies, only looking directly at those whom I… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
Most Jewish feminists and gays that I know remain angry and frustrated by Jewish progressives. Deeply committed to progressive causes, frequently in the vanguard… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
