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

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

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.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission

Love her personality.. Not her body!And all i meant.. Don't u ever choose her body over her personality.. Cause if u did this u will eventually find someone with a great body then her's..

Careful had never really been her style.

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

The best sentence? The shortest.

I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role, But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old.

A moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?