Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Even if I’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
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… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
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… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable.… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
“Even if I’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share
