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

Anita Diament

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Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
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I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.
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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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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
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It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
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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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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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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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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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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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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
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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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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
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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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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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Biblical names are hot again.
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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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