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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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University Teacher
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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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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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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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As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
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