Latest Ayelet Waldman Quotes from Interviews

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• The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can we just say gender equality and the end of mass incarceration and the final shedding of the vestiges of a slave-based nation? Can we have that, too? Can I have it all?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Drug Use, Finals, Mental Health

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Years, Months, Medication

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.

  Ayelet Waldman

  White, Class, Firsts

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Teenager, Thinking, Giving

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• The idea of going down to Central or South American and taking ayahuasca and shitting my pants and puking in a circle of overprivileged white people is not my idea of a good time. That's not going to happen.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Ayahuasca, Circles, Ideas

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say I'm not going to be running off to India to join an ashram anytime soon.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Running, Stars, War

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Believe, World, May

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Believe, Feel Better, Fundamentals

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• Nothing makes me roll my eyes faster than a "Coexist" bumper sticker.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Eye, Bumper Sticker, Faster

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• I am a very nonspiritual person.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Persons

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• That connection between hormones and mood is so important to get a handle on, and it's also really important when you're considering taking medication.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Important, Connections, Mood

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• The statistic that 67 percent of women's admissions to the psychiatric facilities are during the week before menstruation is critically important to every woman, and to every woman who feels she suffers from depression.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Suffering, Important, Week

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• It's incredibly important to me that my children don't put anything in their bodies that they haven't tested first - that's how you end up dying.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Important, Dying

  "The Case for Taking a Very Little Bit of LSD Nearly Every Day". Interview with Jenny Luna, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2017.

• Here are my Mommy Messages: Wear a condom and test your Molly.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Tests, Messages, Condom

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Kids, Thinking, Drunk

  "The Case for Taking a Very Little Bit of LSD Nearly Every Day". Interview with Jenny Luna, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2017.

• In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mom, Drinking, Bricks

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Hate, Alcohol, Culture

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• I believe the approach we take to talking to our kids about drugs can, in some cases, mean the difference between life and death. So my approach is really simple: I just don't want them to die. And I want them to be able to save someone's life if they see someone die.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Believe, Kids, Mean

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Rip, War, Men

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Optimism, Left

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.

  Ayelet Waldman

  War, Thinking, Drug Use

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous war on drugs that was actually counterproductive.

  Ayelet Waldman

  War, Fighting, Drug

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• When you consider America, there are hundreds of millions of people who have smoked marijuana illegally.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Marijuana, America, People

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.

  Ayelet Waldman

  War, Years, Jail

  Source: m.motherjones.com

• I was terrified of LSD. I don't want to get arrested.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Want, Lsd, Terrified

  "The Case for Taking a Very Little Bit of LSD Nearly Every Day". Interview with Jenny Luna, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2017.