Anita Diament
Anita Diament
practice community contemporary
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
sun shy coming-out
When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
heaven mountain earth
Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
nice rejection historical
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
blue tears mouths
One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
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.
years library-research fellowship
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.