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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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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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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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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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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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