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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
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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.
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Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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