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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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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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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
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It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
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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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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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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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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