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Harriet Rosenstein

  • There were, in the beginning, seven children, each rising out of my great-grandmother's darkness every twelve or thirteen months like little full moons, following, even in birth, the quirky Jewish calendar. ... My great-grandmother conceived and bore them, I am told, with bemused passivity, as tolerant as the moon must be of her own swellings and thinnings and equally unconscious.

    • Harriet Rosenstein,
    • "The Fraychie Story," in Ms. ()

Harriet Rosenstein, U.S. writer

(1932)