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Silvia Tennenbaum

  • ... there comes a time in every rabbi's life when he thinks he's Moses.

  • A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

  • Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.

  • She was like a recorded telephone message — she didn't listen, she only spoke.

  • ... grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.

  • ... the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.

Silvia Tennenbaum, U.S. writer

(1928)