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Even a broken clock is right twice every day. — Anita Diamant

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Never apologize for being smart. — Anita Diamant

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He goes on and on about war like it is something beautiful and noble, which only means he's never seen it himself. War is hideous and it leaves you covered in shit. I cannot kill anyone else. I will not. — Anita Diamant

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It 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 Diamant

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Some midwives said that pleasure overheated the seed and killed it. But others claimed that babies only come when women smile. This was the tale she told Jacob to inspire his caresses. — Anita Diamant

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You should always be kind to people, Ava. You never know what sorrows they're carrying around. — Anita Diamant

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It took me until I was almost forty before I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. — Anita Diamant

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During the Middle Ages some weddings were even held in cemeteries, since it was believed the life-affirming act of marriage could halt a plague. — Anita Diamant

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I made her promise to write, but artists are artists, not writers. She did send postcards, though: a lot of postcards - sometimes — Anita Diamant

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I need a bathroom. And there are way too many people around here for us to — Anita Diamant

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Midwives do not fear life. — Anita Diamant

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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. — Anita Diamant

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How did I get to be the woman I am today? It started in that library, in the reading club. That's where I started to be my own person. — Anita Diamant

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Mameh would complain about America; how the apples had no taste — Anita Diamant

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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together. — Anita Diamant

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About flying out to see her. Don't tell your — Anita Diamant

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The world seemed so perfect, so complete, and yet so impermanent that I nearly wept. — Anita Diamant

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My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over. — Anita Diamant

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The tongue-in-cheek Yiddish-English "translation" for R.S.V.P. is "Remember to Send Vedding Presents. — Anita Diamant

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As far as I can tell, common sense hasn't been in fashion for a long time. — Anita Diamant

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Nothing is as good as it used to be." I swore I would never talk like that and you know what? Now that I'm an old lady myself, I think that most things are better than they used to be. Look at the computers. Look at your sister, — Anita Diamant

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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. — Anita Diamant

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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. — Anita Diamant

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[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand. — Anita Diamant

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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. — Anita Diamant

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Didn't mention that Jake wasn't really her — Anita Diamant

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I am as proud to be called a feminist as I am to be called a Jew, or an American. Feminism is an indivisible part of who I am, and I remain mystified by the stigma that has been attached to the idea that women are human beings.
It sounds so obvious and simple to me, so motherhood and apple pie. And yet the idea that women are human beings remains news, a message that requires constant, clear, and artful reinforcement in a world that continues to undermine the confidence and abilities of girls and women. On the day that the intelligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only being to imagine. — Anita Diamant

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My world got very small, the way it always does when someone in your family is sick. — Anita Diamant

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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. — Anita Diamant

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Purple - the color of royalty and holiness and wealth. — Anita Diamant

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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. — Anita Diamant

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His whole life he tried to make things better for poor children, but his real calling was being a father. It was a talent with him. As soon as our girls could sit up, he was wheeling them to the library and taking out books to read them bedtime stories. — Anita Diamant

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We didn't call it the First World War when it was happening. — Anita Diamant

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He was golden and beautiful as a sunset. — Anita Diamant

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I would curse the whole nation but for that Canaanite woman's kindness ... I never saw her face, but I imagine it shining with light and beauty. Indeed, when I think of her, I see the face of the full moon. — Anita Diamant

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Zilpah had little use for men, whom she described as hairy, crude, and half human. Women needed men to make babies and to move heavy objects, but otherwise she didn't understand their purpose, much less appreciate their charms. — Anita Diamant

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I don't want to die, Buddy.' She put her head on his chest. 'I know this cancer probably won't kill me. But I think about dying all the time. I dream about it. What do you think? Do I get to see Pat on the other side, or do I just lie there in the dirt forever?'
... Buddy wrapped his arms around her and drew her close. 'I think dead is dead,' he said softly, near her ear. 'But that's not so bad. I think of it as following. Following the rest of them ... My mother and father. Your sister. Your mom. But not just them. All of them. All of us. People ... Maybe it's just a way to feel less lonesome about the whole thing, but I think of dying as a path we all go down separately at first, but eventually, together. — Anita Diamant

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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. — Anita Diamant

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I'm still embarrassed and mad at myself. But after seventy years, I also feel sorry for the girl I used to be. She was awfully hard on herself. — Anita Diamant

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When I look at my eighty-five-year-old face in the mirror today, I think, "You're never going to look better than you do today, honey, so smile." Whoever said a smile is the best face-lift was one smart woman. — Anita Diamant

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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. — Anita Diamant

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The boardwalk was mobbed like downtown at Christmas, only with the roller coaster roaring overhead. The beach was even worse. It was like an obstacle course of blankets and people. It was hard for him to walk on sand and the cane didn't help at all. — Anita Diamant

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Sometimes friends grow apart. You tell each other everything and you're sure this is a person you'll know the rest of your life but then she stops writing or calling, or you realize she's really not so nice, or she turns into a right-winger. — Anita Diamant

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Their coupling was the coupling of the sea and the sky, of the rain and the parched earth. Of night and day, wind and water. — Anita Diamant

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I Have No Choice, Addie. — Anita Diamant

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Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you. — Anita Diamant

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Asked, Would you call yourself impetuous, Addie? — Anita Diamant

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But I belong to that landscape now, to the sky and the mountains. I wouldn't be happy anywhere else. — Anita Diamant

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If you sit on the bank of a river, you see only a small part of its surface. And yet, the water before your eyes is proof of unknowable depths. — Anita Diamant

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Why is it you get more tired from sitting and doing nothing than from running around doing too much? — Anita Diamant

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I always felt I understood myself better after we spent time together. And the way she laughed at my wisecracks and thanked me for my opinions made me think maybe I was as smart and funny as she said i was. — Anita Diamant

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

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Time is a mother's enemy. — Anita Diamant

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After the birth of a boy, mothers rested from one moon to the next, but the birth of a birth-giver required a longer period of separation from the world of men. — Anita Diamant

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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. — Anita Diamant

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Was Juliet a better poet than Romeo? If Juliet found out about Rosaline, would she still love Romeo? Should Juliet have given Paris a chance? Why is love so dangerous for Juliet? Why are Juliet's parents so blind? Was the Nurse Juliet's friend or enemy? Would Juliet have killed herself if she had been twenty-five years old instead of thirteen? — Anita Diamant

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One night, alone in her Dogtown bed, Judy finally admitted to herself that she had been in love with Cornelius. "In love" precisely as it was described in the novels and poems she had read with Martha; love as a kind of sweet madness that colored everything. Judy had been shocked that strangers across the ocean could describe the workings of her Yankee heart: the preoccupation and yearning, the soaring happiness and keen appreciation of a man's hidden qualities, the sublime meeting of souls. And yet, there was never a mention of the sort of union she'd shared with Cornelius, the longing and fulfillment of the flesh, that could transform two bodies into one. — Anita Diamant

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kitchen, where she could count on Tirzah to be — Anita Diamant

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He lay across the valley like a sparkling path, the setting sun catching fire on the way. — Anita Diamant

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Don't let anyone tell you things aren't better than they used to be. — Anita Diamant

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Reverend Hartshorn's face had puckered into a scowl. "This, er, passionate experience of the divine to which you lay claim is not necessarily evidence of salvation," he said, choosing his words carefully. According to his theology, election was an absolute mystery; however, the notion that this foul-smelling lout could lay claim to revelation seemed monstrous. "The — Anita Diamant

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Yelled, and finally got me on my cheek with a loud slap that made — Anita Diamant

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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [ ... ] the stronger the daughter. — Anita Diamant

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Your daughters are my wives and want none of you. Your grandsons are my sons, and owe you nothing. While I stood on your land, I gave you honor you did not deserve, but now I am not bound by the obligations of guests and hosts. — Anita Diamant

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I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy. — Anita Diamant

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Ruth had come so far and lived so lonely only to learn that she was the daughter of a rapist and a murderer. She was half-sister to a smug fool who would probably have used Phoebe as ill as his father, had he been given the chance. — Anita Diamant

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Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? — Anita Diamant

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No girl is ever happy with her own hair, is she? — Anita Diamant

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Sometimes luck was just another word for creation, which was as relentless as destruction. — Anita Diamant

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When I think back, I get mad at what they did to those poor men. Ernie must have had PTSD - they called it shell shock - and the doctors told him to keep it all bottled up inside. They didn't know any better, but it was like treating syphilis with candy bars. — Anita Diamant

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Having all those women together in one place was like looking through a photo album of my life: from when I was a baby to the Saturday Club to Rockport Lodge to working at the newspaper to meeting Aaron. — Anita Diamant

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Why did I not know that (child) birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? ... Until you are the woman on the bricks, you have no idea how death stands in the corner, ready to play his part. Until you are the woman on the bricks, you do not know the power that rises from other women. — Anita Diamant

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I'll give her the whole day off from work - with pay. — Anita Diamant

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The older Irene got, the more she swore. I remember when her grandson pooped in his diaper at his christening, she said, 'Holy shit,' loud enough for everyone to hear. The look on that priest's face! — Anita Diamant

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A girl should always have her own money so she's never beholden to anyone." I — Anita Diamant

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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing. — Anita Diamant

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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place. — Anita Diamant

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Italians are just as good as Jews when it comes to guilt. — Anita Diamant

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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. — Anita Diamant

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Betty had never been skinny and she was never really fat. She still had a nice shape, but it was well upholstered now and her new dress made the best of it. — Anita Diamant

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People don't talk so much about sad memories. — Anita Diamant

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We have been lost to each other for so long. My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault, or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing. — Anita Diamant

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Mimba had been right about white people. The best thing was to treat them like ghosts and cannibals, not to be trusted. But sometimes, a white ghost would look at you straight on, with a full smile, eye to eye. The smile of the eye was the secret, Mimba had taught her. You had to be careful always, but every now and again you could act as though they had souls, too. Easter was one like that. — Anita Diamant

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Remember when I used to chase you and your sister around the house to get my daily minimum requirement of hugs? I said if I didn't get one hundred hugs I would float up into the sky like Mary Poppins and you would never see me again. We stopped playing that game when you started school, but we never stopped hugging. — Anita Diamant

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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive. — Anita Diamant

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They all agreed that things were better in the old days. Some of them were sad about it and some were bitter, but it was always, 'Nothing is as good as it used to be.' I swore I would never talk like that and you know what? Now that I'm an old lady myself, I think that most things are better than they used to be. Look at the computers. Look at your sister, the cardiologist, and you, graduating from Harvard. Don't talk to me about the good old days. What was so good? — Anita Diamant

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That time, I knew she was asking for an opinion. "My mother thinks I am." She said mothers were right to be concerned for their — Anita Diamant

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The great mother whom we call Innana gave a gift to woman that is not known among men, and this is the secret of blood. The flow at the dark of the moon, the healing blood of the moon's birth - to men, this is flux and distemper, bother and pain. They imagine we suffer and consider themselves lucky. We do not disabuse them.
In the red tent, the truth is known. In the red tent, where days pass like a gentle stream, as the gift of Innana courses through us, cleansing the body of last month's death, preparing the body to receive the new month's life, women give thanks - for repose and restoration, for the knowledge that life comes from between our legs, and that life costs blood. — Anita Diamant

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From her perch, she studied the world... — Anita Diamant

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I never cared for red headed men. I think they look like shrimp boiled to peel. — Anita Diamant

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Other people were turning in their papers and I still hadn't written a word. I was starting to panic until out of the blue I remembered my father saying that Jews answered questions with more questions. So that's what I did. — Anita Diamant

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She said, Hiking is the same thing as walking, only hotter and twice as far as you want to go. But usually, you're glad you went. — Anita Diamant

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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. — Anita Diamant

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Mind your business had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend. — Anita Diamant

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He'd been back to Mrs. Stanley's house only three times in the years since Stanwood had chased him out. — Anita Diamant

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

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If you treat every question like you've never heard it before, your students feel like you respect them and everyone learns a lot more. Including the teacher. — Anita Diamant

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Why had no one told me that my body would become a battlefield, a sacrifice, a test? Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? But of course there is no way to tell this or to hear it. Until you are the woman on the bricks, you have no idea how death stands in the corner, ready to play his part. Until you are the woman on the bricks, you do not know the power that rises from other women-even strangers speaking an unknown tongue, invoking the names of unfamiliar goddesses. — Anita Diamant

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You told me about the other side of the universe, where darkness and light are not separated. — Anita Diamant