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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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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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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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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.
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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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'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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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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 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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One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
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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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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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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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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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