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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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University Teacher
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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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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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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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 is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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