171 Quotes by Anita Diamant

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

Mort moved my ending to the beginning, took out all the adjectives, cut the whole thing in half, and made it one hundred percent better.'That's how it's done,' he said. Best writing lesson I ever had.

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.

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.

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

They're highly functional. But they protect each other from their problems. It's a garden-variety problem. ... I think people protect each other in families a lot, out of love.

The Last Days of Dogtown ... The Red Tent.

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

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.