Bourgeois Quote by Marc Maron

I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world…

— Joseph Heller

I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that…

— Don Rickles

I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.

— Giles Coren

When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation in the…

— Max Joseph

I have a son who's been raised Jewish because his mom is Jewish. I have a whole different set of holidays to celebrate. Everybody…

— Paul Giamatti

The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

— Erica Jong

As an adult, I've always found the stereotype that Jews are liberal a curious one; my parents' circle was predominantly conservative, not just on…

— Rick Perlstein

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Nine times out of ten, people consider a nice little Jewish boy the kid who grows up and sits behind a desk preparing your…

— Bill Goldberg

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

— Susan Jacoby

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

— Kenneth Lonergan

I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they…

— Susanne Bier