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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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Sweet
Water
Heart
Brimming

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It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
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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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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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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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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 early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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 nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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 love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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