Anita Diament Quotes

• The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

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  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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• Egipto amaba el loto porque nunca muere. Lo mismo ocurre con las personas que son amadas. Así, algo tan insignificante como un nombre -dos sílabas, una alta, una dulce- puede convocar las innumerables sonrisas, lágrimas, suspiros y sueños de una vida humana.

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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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• My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.

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  Sweet, Heart, Water

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• In 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.

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  Powerful, Flower, Night

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

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  Paseos

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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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• My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

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  Wedding, Husband, Judaism

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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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• Si quieres entender a cualquier mujer, primero debes preguntarle por su madre y luego escuchar atentamente. Las historias sobre la comida muestran una fuerte conexión. Los silencios melancólicos demuestran que hay asuntos pendientes. Cuanto más sepa una hija sobre los detalles de la vida de su madre -sin inmutarse ni quejarse-, más fuerte será la hija.

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  Hija, Madre, Fuerte

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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 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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• 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 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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• I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

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  Son, Grandfather, Praying

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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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