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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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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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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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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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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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 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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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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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 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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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