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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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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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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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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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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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