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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.

Anita Diament

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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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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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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