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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• The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

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  Daughter, 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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  Daughter, Mother, Children

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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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  Fall, Kissing, Air

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• Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

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  Heaven, Mountain, Earth

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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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  Mother, Garden, Childhood

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• I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.

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  Crush, Together, Way

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• Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

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  Debt, Pleasure, Only Love

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• There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

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  Real, Color, Add

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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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  Giving Up, Reading, Writing

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• I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

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  World, Jazz, Kind

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• Biblical names are hot again.

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  Biblical, Names, Hot

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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, People, Lotuses

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• Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

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  Gratitude, Art, Enemy

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• They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.

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  Color, Voice, Rainbow

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• He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.

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  Beautiful, Sunset, Golden

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