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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.

Anita Diament

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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 is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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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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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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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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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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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.
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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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