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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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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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