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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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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 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 other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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 something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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 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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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
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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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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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 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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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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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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