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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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 pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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 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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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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 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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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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