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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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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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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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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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Weeping is terrible for the complexion said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, but it is very good for the soul.
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Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
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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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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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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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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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I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
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Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.
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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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The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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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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