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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Music
Many
Kind
Love
World
Classical
Pops
Kinds
Jazz

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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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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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Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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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 moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.
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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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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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