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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
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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 pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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Biblical names are hot again.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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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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The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
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