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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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Brimming
Sweet
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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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I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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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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 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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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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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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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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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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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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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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