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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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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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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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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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Biblical names are hot again.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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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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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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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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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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