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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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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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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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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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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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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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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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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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.
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