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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
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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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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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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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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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'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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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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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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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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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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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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