With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women. — Rumaan Alam Age Copy Share Image
Baking is a matter of precision and timing, but I just make things up as I go. — Rumaan Alam Baking Copy Share Image
I reject the notion that one should feel guilty about what you don't know. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I work when I work, and that is often dictated by the things I cannot control. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I am not anti-Internet, and I don't think smart phones are a social ill. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I didn't know, at 22, that everything that happens to you, the good stuff as well as the less-good stuff, accrues and… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
If you've ever watched a television cartoon, you know that kids don't appreciate subtlety, though perhaps that's because they're not often offered… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Every sense has the power to transport us through time, but it's taste I find the most mysterious, and writing about it… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I mourn for the kind of dad I didn't have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the… — Rumaan Alam Culture Copy Share Image
For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool. — Rumaan Alam Enlightened Copy Share Image
Shot glasses make me think of youth and a mode of drinking and living that was never mine, even when I was… — Rumaan Alam Age Copy Share Image
Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time. — Rumaan Alam Books Copy Share Image
Because the designers at Baby Gap and Crew Cuts have determined it would be cute if kids dressed like their dads, seemingly… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I don't want the staggeringly wealthy Elton John and his family to represent the standard of gay fatherhood any more than straight… — Rumaan Alam Beautiful Copy Share Image
When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I married the man I love when the state of California said I could. We made a family through adoption, as New… — Rumaan Alam Adoption Copy Share Image
To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a… — Rumaan Alam Art Copy Share Image
“One of her most reached-for truisms was that some percentage of jobs were indistinguishable from one another, as they all involved the… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
The cultural conversation around privilege has grown vibrant enough that the ultimate privilege is to just ignore it altogether. Some decry this… — Rumaan Alam Communication Copy Share Image
Kids are the ultimate trump card: a way to get out of co-op board meetings or lunch with a friend you don't… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I don't have a Winslow Homer or a Renoir, but I do have the liberty to live as I like. — Rumaan Alam Freedom Copy Share Image
I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also… — Rumaan Alam Books Copy Share Image
If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it. — Rumaan Alam Empathy Copy Share Image
