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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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 never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
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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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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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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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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If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.
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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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I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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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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One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
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