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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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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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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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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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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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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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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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 husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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