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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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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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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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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.
Anita Diament
It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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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 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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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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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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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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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
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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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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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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
Anita Diament
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.
Anita Diament
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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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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