Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands. Caroline Leavitt Read Quote
A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves. Caroline Leavitt Read Quote
I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could spell its name to look up the address. I tell myself that lots of writers agonize over titles, and often get them wrong at first. Caroline Leavitt Read Quote
A title means marketing. It means that company’s coming soon, and you’d better get out the Christmas lights so they don’t miss your house. Caroline Leavitt Read Quote
By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass. Caroline Leavitt Read Quote
I was a bookworm who aced every test – until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles. Caroline Leavitt Read Quote
I had always known that I was Jewish – we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue – but I had never known that I was supposed to feel ashamed about it. Caroline Leavitt Read Quote
I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast. Caroline Leavitt Read Quote
I’m a big believer in quantum physics, which says that the universe is more incredible and mysterious than any of us can imagine, which is my way of saying, ‘Anything is possible, including angels.’ Caroline Leavitt Read Quote
