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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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 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 pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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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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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 love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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