Anita Diament Quotes

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• The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

  Anita Diament

  Heart, Religion, Rooms

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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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  Beautiful, Necklaces, Painful

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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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  Baby, Falling In Love, Love You

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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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  Mother, Birth, Pinnacle

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• One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.

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  Love, Knowing, Secret

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• The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

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  Daughter, Mother, Stronger

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• When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.

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  Sun, Shy, Coming Out

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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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  Dream, Sweet, Egypt

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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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  Soul, Said, Very Good

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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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  Community, Benefits, Way

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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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  Song, Writing, Light

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• I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

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  Son, Grandfather, Praying

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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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  Book, Editors, Stories

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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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  Childhood, Denver, Jersey

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• Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

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  Games, Plans

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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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  Nannies, Grew Up, Mary

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• It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

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  Remember, Forgotten, Holy

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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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  Years, Library Research, Doing Me

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• I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

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  Nice, Rejection, Historical

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• Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

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  Practice, Community, Contemporary

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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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  Character, Names, Sacred

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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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  Beautiful, Smart, Writing

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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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  Writing, Lines, Littles

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• There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

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  America, Remains

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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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  Couple, Book, College

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