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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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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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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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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.
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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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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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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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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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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 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 never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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