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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
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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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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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 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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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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 never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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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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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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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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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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