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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Jersey
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Childhood
Early
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Newark
Denver

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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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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.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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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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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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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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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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