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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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Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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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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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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