Quote

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

Anita Diament

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Whitman
Adolescent
Remains
Almost
America
Everything
Something
Good

More quotes by Anita Diament

Image
I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
Anita Diament
Image
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
Anita Diament
Image
Biblical names are hot again.
Anita Diament
Image
It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament
Image
Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
Anita Diament
Image
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
Anita Diament
Image
The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
Anita Diament
Image
Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
Anita Diament
Image
Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
Anita Diament
Image
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament
Image
It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.
Anita Diament
Image
The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament
Image
Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament
Image
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.
Anita Diament