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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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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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If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - 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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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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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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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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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 would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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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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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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