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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Wanted
Never
Nanny
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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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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
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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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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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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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 pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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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 am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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 love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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