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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
Author
Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Realizing
Good
Simple
Time
Fall
Love
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Think
Back
Thinking
Giving
Babies
Life
Thing
Baby
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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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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It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
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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 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 tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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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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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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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