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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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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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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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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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'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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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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 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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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 am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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