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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

Anita Diament

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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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Nannies
Mary
Grew
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Never
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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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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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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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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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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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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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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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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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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