If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

- Edith Konecky

If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, rulin…

- Edith Konecky

my mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

- Edith Konecky

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

- Edith Konecky

My parents professed to believe in God, but I rarely heard his name mentioned unattached to 'damn' or 'sakes' or 'willing.

- Edith Konecky