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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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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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 like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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