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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
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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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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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 am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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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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