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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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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 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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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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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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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.
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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 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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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 other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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