Jewish Mother

Famous quotes containing the words jewish and/or mother:

“For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application—why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.”
—Howard Nemerov (1920–1991)

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)