As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility. — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
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 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 was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Perhaps my children will one day pledge their loyalty to the Republican Party. Or perhaps they'll dismiss my liberalism as mild pap,… — 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
