Quote

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

Anita Diament

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Pleasure
Death
Love
Life
Owes
Pleasures
Debt

More quotes by Anita Diament

Image
I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
Anita Diament
Image
Biblical names are hot again.
Anita Diament
Image
If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.
Anita Diament
Image
Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
Anita Diament
Image
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
Anita Diament
Image
My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
Anita Diament
Image
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament
Image
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
Anita Diament
Image
Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament
Image
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
Anita Diament
Image
I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
Anita Diament
Image
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
Anita Diament
Image
He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
Anita Diament
Image
The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament