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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.

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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Brimming
Sweet
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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 got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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 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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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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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 more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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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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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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