There is no such thing as a race without its own cooking. Or even without its daily bread. (43) - Margo Glantz

my brother-in-law says I don't seem Jewish, because Jews, like our first cousins the Arabs, hate images. So everything is mine and yet it isn't, and I look Jewish and I don't and that is why I am writing this- my family history, the story of my own family tree. (Prologue)

All of us, no matter whether noble or not, have our own family trees. (Prologue)

Living with someone probably means losing part of your own identity. Living with someone contaminates (36)