171 Quotes by Anita Diamant

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

According to the Talmud, if a funeral procession and a wedding procession cross paths, the wedding party goes first. Life is more important than death.

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.

Weeping is terrible for the complexion” said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, “but it is very good for the soul.