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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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University Teacher
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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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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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on the day that the intlligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.
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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 got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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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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They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.
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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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