Anita Diament
Anita Diament
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The President of the Reform Movement started a literacy project and said everyone should be reading at least four Jewish books a year.
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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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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.
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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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November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
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Readers have told me how the mother, daughter, sister relationships resonate for them. They connect with the importance of female relationships.
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When I turned 40, I wanted to do something different. Fiction offered a different challenge. It uses a different side of the brain.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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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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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
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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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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.