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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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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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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.
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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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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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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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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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