My mom, grandma, great-grandma - we're all named Mary, and we all play piano and sing.
Our family was like no one else's. My schoolfriends had fathers and grandfathers and uncles who did things, but in my family, women had been the doers.
My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.
Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend all their money on the military like patriarchy does. They are easy prey.
Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.
I definitely come from a line of strong women. It's not only like my mother and my grandmother, but my aunties too.
I never dropped my surname.
Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.
