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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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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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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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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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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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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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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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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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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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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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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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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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