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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
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Mothering
Details
Daughter
Stronger
Mother
Life

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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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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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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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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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
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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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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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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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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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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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