"... when I just started this book I thought: Roth’s pretty much has it down on what the worse thing a Jewish boy can do but what is the worst thing a Jewish girl can do? Well: it is most likely throwing up her mother’s cooking. Food is identity, it’s love, it’s politics, it’s family. To reject that, and in such a self-destructive manner, is something I wanted to investigate. It also implicitly brings up the notion of privilege, which is also a stereotype many young Jewish women are saddled with."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Novelists from the United StatesJews from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesWomen academics from the United StatesCornell University alumni
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
as quoted by Yona Zeldis McDonough in:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jennifer_Gilmore
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Jennifer Gilmore
3 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Jennifer Gilmore →
Related Quotes
"It's actually quite frightening to be an author and know the business side of publishing. I imagine it's easier to be…"
"My husband and I were on this protracted and tragic adoption journey. It was really hard and there were a lot of thin…"
"Would you end war? Create great Peace."
"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."
"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."
"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"
"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."
"Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born?"
"Quick as a hummingbird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers—She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly, Dipping…"
"We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear."