Ayelet Waldman Quotes - Page 4

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• A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.

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  Love, Mother, Art

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• If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Children, Husband

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

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• I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

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  Regret, Guilt, Energy

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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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• Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'

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  Thinking, Listening, Despair

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• As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

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  Parent, Certain, Fallibility

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• I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

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  Daughter, Mother, Two

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• 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.

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  Believe, Kids, Mean

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Hate, Mail, Reader

  "Ayelet Waldman: Precipitating the mother of all uproars". Interview with Carol Memmott, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 1, 2009.

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• Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

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  Happiness, Children, Valentine

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• My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Father, Israel, Worry

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

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  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.

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• My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

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  Years, Hook, Red

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• The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.

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  Suicide, Husband, Thinking

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• There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

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  Phrases, Annoying, Told You So

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

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  Eye, Bumper Sticker, Faster

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

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  Art, Jobs, Book

  "Ayelet Waldman on Acting Your Age". Interview with Tim J Luddy, www.motherjones.com. November, 2009.

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• Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

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  Country, Simple, America

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• During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.

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  Children, Kids, Home

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• I've only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools.

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  Drug, Tools, Therapeutic

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.

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  Husband, Equal Pay, Names

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• I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

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  Boys, Oedipus, Molotov Cocktail

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.88, Anchor

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• The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

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  Beautiful, Fun, Artist

  "Ayelet Waldman on Acting Your Age". Interview with Tim J Luddy, www.motherjones.com. November, 2009.

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• Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

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  Commitment, Comfort, Sticks

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• Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

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  Nasty, Judgmental, Failing

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.69, Anchor

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