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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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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 pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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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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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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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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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
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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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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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I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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