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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Woman
Learn
Wanted
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Heart
Divided
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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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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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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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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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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 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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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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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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
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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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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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