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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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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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Biblical names are hot again.
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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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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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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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