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

Anita Diament

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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University Teacher
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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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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
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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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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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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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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
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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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