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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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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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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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Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
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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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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.
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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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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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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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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 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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Biblical names are hot again.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
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