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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

Anita Diament

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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 got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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 would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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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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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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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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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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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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on the day that the intlligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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