I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.
ATTRIBUTION:
Ruth Behar (b. 1956), U.S. anthropologist. Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A44 (November 4, 1992).
Winner of the extremely prestigious (and remunerative) MacArthur Fellowship, Behar was the granddaughter of a Russian Jew who emigrated to Cuba in 1924 and much later, after the Cuban Revolution, to the United States.
