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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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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Short Story Writer
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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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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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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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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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.
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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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