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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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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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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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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.
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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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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 more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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 pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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