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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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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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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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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 never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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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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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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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