"...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."

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Source : Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

Irena Klepfisz

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“I think everybody wants to be a rock star.”

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“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
“It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.”
“If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.”
“The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?”
“Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.”
“I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.”
“The divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.”

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