171 Quotes by Anita Diamant

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

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

We are all born of the same mother.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

No girl is ever happy with her own hair, is she?

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.

My house was a world of my own possession, a country in which I was ruler and citizen, where I chose and where I served.

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

Jacob’s dogs were soon the envy of other men, who offered to buy them. Instead, he traded a day’s work for the stud of the male cur with cunning wolfish eyes. When the smallest of our bitches bore the wolf-dog’s litter, Jacob trained her puppies and traded four of the five for what seemed a mountain of treasure, which he quickly converted to gifts that proved how well he had come to understand Laban’s daughters.