61 Quotes by Anita Diament

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

When I turned 40, I wanted to do something different. Fiction offered a different challenge. It uses a different side of the brain.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

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.

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.