Like what I said about Jewish American Princesses. I do a whole two days on anti-Semitism and Jewish American princesses, and they don't get it for a while, they don't really think it's anti-semitism, they just think it's funny. You know I say to the Jewish women: 'you come from this remarkable tradition and remarkable women who are revolutionaries, who are activists, who were some of the brilliant minds and you're left with Clueless' – you know the movie Clueless, and thinking that Jewish women are materialists and that that's the essence of who we are.' Sometimes I cry when we talk about it. I say, 'you can't lose who we are.' You can't let this culture do that to you. You can't have your self-image be so distorted that you don't know where you've come from and whom you've come from. You can't have that taken away from you, you've gotta fight for it.

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