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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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I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
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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 like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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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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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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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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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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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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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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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
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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 nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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