The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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.
Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.
The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
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.
Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.
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.
The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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.
Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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.
There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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.
I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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.
Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
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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