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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
Anita Diament
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It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
Anita Diament
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
Anita Diament
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Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
Anita Diament
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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
Anita Diament
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Biblical names are hot again.
Anita Diament
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
Anita Diament
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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
Anita Diament
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As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
Anita Diament
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I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
Anita Diament
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
Anita Diament
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It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.
Anita Diament
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
Anita Diament
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
Anita Diament
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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
Anita Diament
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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
Anita Diament
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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
Anita Diament
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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
Anita Diament
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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
Anita Diament
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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
T. S. Eliot
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Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
Anita Diament
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
Anita Diament
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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
Anita Diament
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What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.
Anita Desai
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