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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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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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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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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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 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.
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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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Biblical names are hot again.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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 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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