Yiddish acted as the cement that bound the Jewish community together on a socialist foundation. What language we spoke was critica...l. It reflected our identity, our loyalty, our distinctness not only from the gentile environment, but from other Jews as well. The use of Yiddish was an expression not only of love of a language, but of pride in ourselves as a people; it was an acknowledgement of a historical and cultural yerushe, heritage, a link to generations of Jews who came before and to the political activists of Eastern Europe. Above all it was the symbol of resistance to assimilation, an insistence on remaining who we were.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It did...n't always come together easily nor does it always stay together easily. It's known very good times and very bad ones. It has held together, often out of shared memories and hopes, sometimes out of the lure of my sisters' cooking, and sometimes out of sheer stubbornness. And like the world itself, our family is renewed by each baby.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on t...he earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night--brothers who see now they are truly brothers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In companions That do converse and waste the time together,... Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, There must be needs a like proportion Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A new kind of woman with deep-rooted values is changing the way we live. Market researchers call it "neo-traditionalism." To us it...'s a woman who has found her identity in herself, her home, her family.... She is part of an extraordinary social movement that is profoundly changing the way Americans look at living--and the way products are marketed. The home is again the center of American life, oatmeal is back on the breakfast table, families are vacationing together, watching movies at home, playing Monopoly again. Even the perfume ads are suddenly glorifying commitment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear... the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there, and the slaves are free from their masters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »