Anita Diament Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Debt, Pleasure, Only Love

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

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  Games, Plans

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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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• 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 Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

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  Book, Rooms, Reader

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

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  Mother, Want, Firsts

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

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  Pain, Stories, Honored

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• I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.

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  Water, Feelings, Magic

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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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  Blue, Tears, Sapphires

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• I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.

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  Song, Strong, Prayer

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• He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.

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  Beautiful, Sunset, Golden

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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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  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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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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  Heart, Would Be, Cry

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• Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

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  Passion, Men, Office

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

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  Walks

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• The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

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  Stories, World, Lost

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

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  Daughter, Memories, Alive

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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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