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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

Anita Diament

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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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Earth
Meets
Mountains
Mountain
Heaven

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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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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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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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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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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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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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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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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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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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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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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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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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