Anita Diament
Anita Diament
fiction offered side turned uses
When I turned 40, I wanted to do something different. Fiction offered a different challenge. It uses a different side of the brain.
connect female importance readers relationships resonate sister
Readers have told me how the mother, daughter, sister relationships resonate for them. They connect with the importance of female relationships.
books four jewish literacy movement president project reading reform
The President of the Reform Movement started a literacy project and said everyone should be reading at least four Jewish books a year.
wedding husband judaism
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
sweet heart water
My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
gratitude art enemy
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
debt pleasure only-love
Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
daughter memories alive
The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
community benefits way
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.
daughter mother children
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.
dream sweet egypt
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.
crush together way
I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
daughter mother stronger
The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
egypt people lotuses
Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.