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1. "They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before." ~ Anita Diamant
2. "The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place." ~ Anita Diamant
3. "I could not get my fill of looking.There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment." ~ Anita Diamant
4. "Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?" ~ Anita Diamant
5. "One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile." ~ Anita Diamant
6. "The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive." ~ Anita Diamant
7. "In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable." ~ Anita Diamant
8. "My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over." ~ Anita Diamant
9. "I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together." ~ Anita Diamant
10. "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." ~ Anita Diamant
11. "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." ~ Anita Diamant
12. "Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul." ~ Anita Diamant
13. "The great mother whom we call Innana gave a gift to woman that is not known among men, and this is the secret of blood. The flow at the dark of the moon, the healing blood of the moon's birth - to men, this is flux and distemper, bother and pain. They imagine we suffer and consider themselves lucky. We do not disabuse them.In the red tent, the truth is known. In the red tent, where days pass like a gentle stream, as the gift of Innana courses through us, cleansing the body of last month's death, preparing the body to receive the new month's life, women give thanks — for repose and restoration, for the knowledge that life comes from between our legs, and that life costs blood." ~ Anita Diamant
14. "I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength." ~ Anita Diamant
15. "One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope." ~ Anita Diamant
16. "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 Diamant
17. "5. My husband's words found their mark, and I recalled something that Zilpah had told me when I was a child in the red tent, and far too young to understand her meaning. "We are all born of the same mother," she said. After a lifetime, I knew that to be true." ~ Anita Diamant
18. "The hills in the distance held my life in a bowl filled with everything I could possibly want." ~ Anita Diamant
19. "Sometimes luck was just another word for creation, which was as relentless as destruction." ~ Anita Diamant
20. "He goes on and on about war like it is something beautiful and noble, which only means he's never seen it himself. War is hideous and it leaves you covered in shit. I cannot kill anyone else. I will not." ~ Anita Diamant
21. "Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend." ~ Anita Diamant
22. "The tongue-in-cheek Yiddish-English "translation" for R.S.V.P. is "Remember to Send Vedding Presents." ~ Anita Diamant
23. "The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter." ~ Anita Diamant
24. "The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story." ~ Anita Diamant
25. "I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers." ~ Anita Diamant
26. "It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing." ~ Anita Diamant
27. "Midwives do not fear life." ~ Anita Diamant
28. "We have been lost to each other for so long. My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust.This is not your fault, or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing..." ~ Anita Diamant
29. "One night, alone in her Dogtown bed, Judy finally admitted to herself that she had been in love with Cornelius. "In love" precisely as it was described in the novels and poems she had read with Martha; love as a kind of sweet madness that colored everything. Judy had been shocked that strangers across the ocean could describe the workings of her Yankee heart: the preoccupation and yearning, the soaring happiness and keen appreciation of a man's hidden qualities, the sublime meeting of souls. And yet, there was never a mention of the sort of union she'd shared with Cornelius, the longing and fulfillment of the flesh, that could transform two bodies into one." ~ Anita Diamant
30. "From her perch, she studied the world..." ~ Anita Diamant
31. "I am as proud to be called a feminist as I am to be called a Jew, or an American. Feminism is an indivisible part of who I am, and I remain mystified by the stigma that has been attached to the idea that women are human beings.It sounds so obvious and simple to me, so motherhood and apple pie. And yet the idea that women are human beings remains news, a message that requires constant, clear, and artful reinforcement in a world that continues to undermine the confidence and abilities of girls and women. On the day that the intelligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only being to imagine." ~ Anita Diamant
32. "[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand." ~ Anita Diamant
33. "He was golden and beautiful as a sunset." ~ Anita Diamant
34. "Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you." ~ Anita Diamant
35. "you got a sad story, ruth,' mimba said. 'but not sad-sad. you here with me and cato and all us together now. you have a happy-sad story. best you can get in this life is happy-sad. but you always gotta remember your own mama that birthed you. even though you only got a crumb of her story, you still got to say her name out loud. you always honor your dead, else you get trouble from them, sure." ~ Anita Diamant
36. "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 Diamant

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Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone."
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