The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.”
“The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.”
“The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.”
“I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.”
“Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.”
“If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. ”
“The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.”
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Book Keywords:
motherhood, menstruation, death, love, childbirth, inspirational, mothers-and-daughters
