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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

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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Life
Chooses
Plans
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Games
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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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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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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 more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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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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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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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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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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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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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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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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Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
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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 great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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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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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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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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