Leah Lax > Quotes

“I have to remember that understanding sometimes comes in degrees, like growth. Like age.”
― Leah Lax, Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

“Today, my faith has been replaced with questions. I love the way unanswered cosmic questions leave open all possibilities. The universe spreads out in three inscrutable, wondrous dimensions.”
― Leah Lax, Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

“If I change, if I get honest, will you know me?”
― Leah Lax, Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

“We live together in the same web but with few lines binding us to one another. Put a fence around the Torah, the Law says. We put fences around our hearts.”
― Leah Lax, Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

“Then I understand. It’s not that Jewish women want to appropriate male attire; it’s that gender shouldn’t have anything to do with expressing human need.”
― Leah Lax, Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home