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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.

Anita Diament

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Soon
Woman
Learn
Wanted
Live
Heart
Divided
Would
Realized
Cry

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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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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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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 was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
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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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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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