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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
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Carefully
Listen
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Woman
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Mother
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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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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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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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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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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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 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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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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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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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I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
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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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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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Biblical names are hot again.
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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 love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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