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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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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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 love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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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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.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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on the day that the intlligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.
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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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