Anita Diament

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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.
- Anita Diament
Collection: Gratitude
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The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
- Anita Diament
Collection: Daughter
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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 Diament
Collection: Daughter
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I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
- Anita Diament
Collection: Crush
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Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
- Anita Diament
Collection: Debt
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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
- Anita Diament
Collection: Egypt
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
- Anita Diament
Collection: Real