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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.

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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Mother
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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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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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.
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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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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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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
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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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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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