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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.

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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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
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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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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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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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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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