Top 150 Anita Diamant Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I wish I had more to tell of my grandmothers. It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.”

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52. “One 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.”

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53. “I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.”

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54. “THE COURTSHIP of Oliver Younger and Polly Boynton began on the day he brought John Stanwood to yank out two of Tammy’s rotten teeth. Oliver was fourteen at the time, and though he’d gotten his height, his voice was still changing and he was far too shy to look Polly square in the eye as she stood, half hidden, in the doorway of her father’s house. She.”

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55. “She approved. “A girl should always have her own money so she’s never beholden to anyone.” I said that was very modern of her, but she didn’t think so. “As far as I can tell, common sense hasn’t been in fashion for a long time.”

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56. “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.”

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57. “Jacob made Laban agree to sacrifice two fat lambs and a kid to the god of his father, as thanks for the bounty. Leah baked raised cakes from the precious stock of wheat for the sacrifice, too, which was carried out as Jacob directed. In the manner of his fathers, he burned entire loaves and all the choice parts of the animals rather than a few portions. The women muttered among themselves at the waste.”

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58. “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 the details of her mother’s life – without flinching.”

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59. “Don’t let anyone tell you things aren’t better than they used to be.”

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60. “Death does not linger where he is defeated.”

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61. “The New Jewish Wedding How.”

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62. “The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the world passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing.”

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63. “I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength. For all these years, no daughter could have made me happier or more proud than you. Now that I know who you are and what life has cost you, I am in awe that I number you among my beloved.”

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64. “I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.”

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65. “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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66. “Remember this moment, when your mother’s body heals every trouble of your soul.”

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67. “A girl should always have her own money so she’s never beholden to anyone.” I.”

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68. “Why is it you get more tired from sitting and doing nothing than from running around doing too much?”

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69. “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.”

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70. “Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child.”

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71. “People don’t talk so much about sad memories.”

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72. “You know, Ava, it’s good to be smart, but kindness is more important. Oh dear, another old-lady chestnut to stitch on a sampler. Or maybe one of those cute little throw pillows.”

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73. “When I started teaching, I remembered how he talked to us, and you know what? 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.”

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74. “Rachel could not even be promised, she told her husband. The girl might look ready to marry, but she was still unripe, having not yet bled. My grandmother claimed that Anath would curse the garden if Laban dared break this law and that she herself would find the strength to take a pestle to her husband’s head again.”

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75. “Mameh would complain about America; how the apples had no taste.”

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76. “You know, Ava, it’s good to be smart, but kindness is more important.”

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77. “Even a broken clock is right twice every day.”

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78. “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.”

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79. “She told us that social work was a young profession still finding itself. She called it a “creative science” and said that, in her opinion, the best social workers were intelligent and compassionate, and while she could give us ideas and tools to help our fellow man, she couldn’t teach us how to put ourselves into another person’s shoes. She said, “If you don’t already know how to do that, you should drop this class and consider another line of work.”

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80. “In the moment before I crossed over, I knew that the priests and magicians of Egypt were fools and charlatans for promising to prolong the beauties of life beyond the world we are give. Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. All of life’s pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.”

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81. “You should always be kind to people, Ava. You never know what sorrows they’re carrying around.”

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82. “You know the saying about how revenge tastes better cold? Well, it tastes just as good warm.”

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83. “I always felt I understood myself better after we spent time together.”

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84. “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 planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.”

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85. “Biblical names are hot again.”

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86. “My world got very small, the way it always does when someone in your family is sick.”

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87. “I need a bathroom. And there are way too many people around here for us to.”

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88. “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.”

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89. “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.”

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90. “How could she find the courage to kill herself when she had no courage for life?”

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91. “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.”

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92. “Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.”

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93. “There’s something almost adolescent about Whitman’s paean to everything that was and remains good about America.”

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94. “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.”

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95. “You don’t ever get resolved. You just get older and life goes on.”

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96. “Sometimes luck was just another word for creation, which was as relentless as destruction.”

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97. “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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98. “But I belong to that landscape now, to the sky and the mountains. I wouldn’t be happy anywhere else.”

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99. “We didn’t call it the First World War when it was happening.”

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100. “I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.”

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