The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
Anita DiamantThe hills in the distance held my life in a bowl filled with everything I could possibly want.
Anita DiamantEgypt 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 DiamantTag: truth-s-about-life
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 DiamantMidwives do not fear life.
Anita DiamantThe 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.
Tag: menstruation
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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.
Anita DiamantTag: childbirth
I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
Anita DiamantTag: love dance dancing crush like toggetherness
Egypt loved the lotus because 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 and tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.
Anita DiamantMind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.
Anita DiamantTag: friend friendship failure minding-his-own-busines
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