Burden Quote by Lauren Bacall

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

— Malcolm Gladwell

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

— Hanna Rosin

Growing up, the influence Judaism had on me was an overwhelming understanding to love those around you, care for others as if they are…

— Stacey Solomon

There's something innately funny and warm about being Jewish. I think it's something to be embraced and respected.

— Ari Graynor

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

— Andrea Dworkin

“When we were teenagers, we would imagine that when we had daughters of our own, we wouldn't be so strict. We would give them…

— Tova Mirvis

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

— Elliott Abrams

“There were many more folk ditties, some mean, others filthy, all of them cruel. No one ever thought of questioning our right to do…

— Richard Wright

What an awful burden we mothers and fathers, Jewish and not, have to bear - to hatch a thing we love more than ourselves…

— Kim Brooks

The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my…

— Marc Platt

When it comes to being Jewish, I can't help myself.

— Scott Rogowsky

The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always…

— Tacitus