Eishes Chayil > Quotes

“Sometimes we build such high walls for protection that we forget that our greatest enemy can grow from within.”
― Eishes Chayil, Hush

“Can the dead hear our prayers? When the words come floating up, do they go straight to God's sacred domain, or does all of heaven know our desperation?”
― Eishes Chayil, Hush

“And it taught me all I needed to know about right and wrong. If a man was wearing that hat he was right; if he wasn’t, he was wrong.”
― Eishes Chayil, Hush

“Fashion is created to bring attention to your body and to disguise what is really important about you.”
― Eishes Chayil, Hush

“We built walls, and built them high. The walls would keep the gentiles and their terrifying world far away. The walls would protect us and shelter us—and as we built them higher, thicker, wider, we forgot to look inside. We forgot that the greatest enemies always grow from within.”
― Eishes Chayil, Hush

“Then he’d tell me all about his first year of marriage with my mother, and how they didn’t get along all at once, but eventually they ran out of things to fight about, and look, today they were the best of friends.”
― Eishes Chayil, Hush

“Children come from love.” “They come from Hashem’s commandment. He said to produce and multiply.”
― Eishes Chayil, Hush

“Someone who dressed in an immodest fashion was trying to be like the goyim, who cared only for their bodies and neglected their souls.”
― Eishes Chayil, Hush

“We will lie talking and talking forever because dreams don’t need to end.”
― Eishes Chayil, Hush

“We combed through Macy’s, cleared out Lord & Taylor, and began exploring Bloomingdale’s. We made long lists of items needed, stores to check out, and hints to convey to the in-laws. There was the Wedding Night Itself, The Day After, and Life in General, which required an exhaustive investigative committee of experienced wedding people that included my aunt – who married off five, my second cousin – seven; and my mother’s former classmate Mrs. Frish and her eleven daughters. Shoes, clothes, lingerie, head coverings, linen – all this needed expert advice on what to buy where, and for how much, and most important of all, how long it would last. Elegant’s linen lasted until at least the third child’s bed-wetting. We weren’t to bother with cheaper brands; they could barely absorb one child’s vomit.”
― Eishes Chayil

“We built walls and we built them high...The walls would protect us and shelter us - and as we built them higher, thicker, wider, we forgot to look inside. We forgot that the greatest enemies always grow from within.”
― Eishes Chayil