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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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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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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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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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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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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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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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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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