Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Play, Car, Decision

  "A New Way To Talk About Eating Animals". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. November 3, 2009.

• Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Kids, People, Identity

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

• It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, Giving, Identity

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

• The way that I feel about my Jewish identity has been really radically changed by events in life. Like, becoming a writer is one. Having children is another. And getting older and watching, you know, my parents and grandparents get older has been another, the seasons of - being witness to the seasons of life and wanting to have some kind of infrastructure to deal with it, to cope with them. Ritual has become more important to me as I've gotten older. It's not always religious ritual, but it often borrows from Judaism.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Religious, Children, Grandparent

  "Jonathan Safran Foer On Marriage, Religion And Universal Balances". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, weaa.org. July 7, 2017.

• Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Identity, Culture, Habit

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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