I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.

Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.

Any good thing will be ruined by talking negatively about it

The eternal spacecreates the temporary spacesand anti-spacesfor zero.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

See the possibility that people and things can change at any time and don't hold on to judgements.