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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

Anita Diament

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
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University Teacher
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Women
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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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I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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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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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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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 Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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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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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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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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.
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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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