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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

Anita Diament

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Mothering
Details
Daughter
Stronger
Mother
Life

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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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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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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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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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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 real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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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 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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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