Keeping balance means being very open to change, especially in a time like now when the ground is shifting. It does not mean digging in your heels. - Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

As Jewish women and Jewish lesbians, we need to reclaim words like pushy/loud/politico/power trippy/cheap/dominating/garish/sexy/emotional/always screaming/bossy/scary temper/difficult style/(and, of course) Jewish mother/(and) Jewish princess...I want a button that says Pushy Jew. Loud Pushy Jew, Loud Pushy Jew Dyke.

one task in creating a culture is to reclaim what one ought to have learned but that somehow went by and was lost.

I've been to Palestine. It exists, right next to Israel. The problem is not that Palestine threatens or erases Israel. The problem is that there are Israeli soldiers all over Palestine. (p 172)