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 DiamentIt 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 DiamentIf 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.
Anita DiamentIt'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.
Anita DiamentOne of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
Anita DiamentI got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
Anita DiamentShakespeare 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.
Anita DiamentThe Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
Anita DiamentThe more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
Anita DiamentAs 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.
Anita DiamentI 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.
Anita DiamentEgypt 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.
Anita DiamentMy early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
Anita DiamentIf you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
Anita DiamentI pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.
Anita DiamentI 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 DiamentWhy did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
Anita DiamentWhatever 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 DiamentI 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.
Anita Diamenton 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 DiamentThere's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
Anita DiamentWeeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.
Anita DiamentThe story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
Anita DiamentI 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.
Anita DiamentSince 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
Anita DiamentDeath is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
Anita DiamentIt'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 DiamentIt is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
Anita DiamentRight 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.
Anita DiamentI would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
Anita DiamentIn Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable.
Anita DiamentOne 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.
Anita DiamentThe painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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