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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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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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 painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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 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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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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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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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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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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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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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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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