Anita Diamant Quotes

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn’t hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

There’s something almost adolescent about Whitman’s paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

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.

The Bible – it’s sort of the other person in the room. There’s this book, the reader, and the Bible.