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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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Newark
Denver
Jersey
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Childhood
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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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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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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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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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 got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.
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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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