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> [There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/there-i-was-out-in-the-barn-playing-midwife-to-a-pregnant-mare-i/)

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## More by Diet Eman

> [The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/the-worst-fear-in-the-hearings-was-that-you-would-get-some-evil/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [“I'm sorry to say it, but it was hard on me to see life continue all around.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/i-m-sorry-to-say-it-but-it-was-hard-on-me-to-see-life-continue-all/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want to think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/darling-if-i-think-of-all-i-miss-now-i-will-go-crazy-i-should-not/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [“I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/i-had-great-pity-on-ansje-because-she-always-acted-very-happy-but-i/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [Heavy laden -- that's what I am. Laden with pride, often thinking myself better than others while we have to think the other one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/heavy-laden-that-s-what-i-am-laden-with-pride-often-thinking-myself/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/this-pouring-thoughts-out-on-paper-has-relieved-me-i-feel-better-and/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [“O Father, console them and please spare our country from that terrible disaster, not because we are any better but only out of grace.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/o-father-console-them-and-please-spare-our-country-from-that-terrible/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/by-the-end-of-the-war-i-could-pick-out-jewish-people-almost-as-if-i/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [“And now, when Mother called to wake me up for the New Year, I first wanted to pray, but it turned into thanks, darling,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/and-now-when-mother-called-to-wake-me-up-for-the-new-year-i-first/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [“And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/and-here-we-see-again-that-we-do-not-decide-our-own-lives-dieneke/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [“That was one other time when my whole body reacted to the fear and went out of my own control. My nerves came apart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/that-was-one-other-time-when-my-whole-body-reacted-to-the-fear-and/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/i-had-no-real-communication-with-anyone-at-the-time-so-i-was-totally/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [“Being exhausted, yet keeping up the pursuit.' (Judges 8:4) Even after what I had said of wanting out, even after that humiliation, the physical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/being-exhausted-yet-keeping-up-the-pursuit-judges-8-4-even-after-what/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/i-would-stand-there-at-times-and-remember-how-beautiful-god-created/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

> [I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/i-lay-there-for-three-whole-days-totally-paralyzed-my-friends-helped/)

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