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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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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 got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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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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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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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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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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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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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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