Ayelet Waldman Quotes - Page 3

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• The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Teenager, Average, People

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• I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.

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  Children, Sibling, Mean

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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?

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  Drug Use, Finals, Mental Health

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Husband, Mistake

  "‘Impossible Pursuits’ on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman". Interview with Katie Hafner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

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• For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.

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  Couple, Months, Banshees

  "Ayelet, Unfiltered / Berkeley writer Ayelet Waldman's bald honesty about putting her husband first made her a magnet for controversy. Would she take any of it back?" by Katherine Seligman, www.sfgate.com. July 24, 2005.

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• When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.

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  Baby, Children, Writing

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

  Ayelet Waldman

  Optimism, Left

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Kids, Long, Parent

  "Ayelet Waldman: Precipitating the mother of all uproars". Interview with Carol Memmott, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 29, 2009.

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• So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

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  Children, Husband, Focus

  "A Mother's Love". “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, www.oprah.com. April 20, 2005.

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• I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

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  Honesty, Mean, Computer

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• 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.

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  War, Thinking, Drug Use

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Teeth, Generations, Agendas

  "Mothers in Chains". www.salon.com. May 24, 2005.

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• Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

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  Giving, Lectures, Stranger

  "Mind Your Own Kids". www.salon.com. August 15, 2005.

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• With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Gay, Bravery, Feminist

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• 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.

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  War, Fighting, Drug

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

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  Mother, Jeans, Dresses

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• Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.

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  Children, Husband, Hair

  "The centre of my universe" by Ayelet Waldman, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2005.

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• Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

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  Mom, Feminist, Groups

  "Ayelet Waldman's Memoir Of A 'Bad Mother'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 5, 2009.

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

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  Marijuana, America, People

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

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  Kids, Insecure, Gay

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• Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

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  Philosophy, Practice, Style

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• There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

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  Daughter, Moving, Years

  "Baby Lust". www.salon.com. April 11, 2005.

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• If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.

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  Couple, Months, Banshees

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• Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Husband, Thinking

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