How to Be a Jewish Mother Quotes

“So you read this book and, God willing, enjoyed it. Do I have to tell you how proud a mother would be of a son like that? I Don't. Now maybe he'll give up all this foolishness and go into a worthwhile profession.”
― Leah Greenburg, How to Be a Jewish Mother: A Very Lovely Training Manual

“My own daughter a streetwalker! If you have any consideration for your parents at all you'll do the only decent thing.

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You'll leave this house and not come back until you're a virgin.”
― Dan Greenburg, How to Be a Jewish Mother: A Very Lovely Training Manual