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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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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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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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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.
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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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