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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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Novelist
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University Teacher
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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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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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The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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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 never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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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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