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.

  Anita Diament

  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.

  Anita Diament

  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?

  Anita Diament

  Mother, Birth, Pinnacle

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

  Anita Diament

  Love, Knowing, Secret

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

  Anita Diament

  Daughter, Mother, Stronger

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

  Anita Diament

  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.

  Anita Diament

  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.

  Anita Diament

  Community, Benefits, Way

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• Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

  Anita Diament

  Walks

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• I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

  Anita Diament

  Pain, Stories, Honored

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• If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.

  Anita Diament

  Mother, Want, Firsts

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

  Anita Diament

  Nice, Rejection, Historical

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• Biblical names are hot again.

  Anita Diament

  Biblical, Names, Hot

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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.

  Anita Diament

  Character, Names, Sacred

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• I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

  Anita Diament

  Nannies, Grew Up, Mary

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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.

  Anita Diament

  Book, Rooms, Reader

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• My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

  Anita Diament

  Childhood, Denver, Jersey

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

  Anita Diament

  Practice, Community, Contemporary

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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.

  Anita Diament

  Book, Editors, Stories

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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.

  Anita Diament

  Fall, Kissing, Air

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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.

  Anita Diament

  Couple, Book, College

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• Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

  Anita Diament

  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.

  Anita Diament

  Mother, Garden, Childhood

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