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> [I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/i-believe-that-mothers-should-tell-the-truth-even-no-especially-when/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

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## More by Ayelet Waldman

> [What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/what-i-do-with-my-kids-is-and-i-think-they-probably-do-ignore-us-is/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/you-know-i-feel-like-my-job-is-to-write-a-book-then-filmmakers-come/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/i-went-from-resenting-my-mother-in-law-to-accepting-her-finally-to/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/courage-is-impulsive-it-is-narcissism-tempered-with-nihilism/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/most-writers-spend-their-lives-standing-a-little-apart-from-the-crowd/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/the-thing-about-youthful-offenders-is-that-no-one-seems-to-care-about/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/i-was-born-in-israel-to-canadian-parents-my-father-immigrated-in-1948/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/lots-of-medications-work-for-a-month-or-a-year-and-then-stop-working/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/if-you-focus-all-of-your-emotional-passion-on-your-children-and-you/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/i-think-i-wish-i-had-never-spanked-my-children-but-i-have-and-they/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/with-prodigious-bravery-and-eviscerating-humor-roxane-gay-takes-on/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/because-of-my-bipolar-disorder-i-tend-to-these-mixed-states-which-are/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/it-s-hard-to-separate-your-remembered-childhood-and-its-emotional/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/even-if-i-m-setting-myself-up-for-failure-i-think-it-s-worth-trying/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

> [I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayelet-waldman/i-hate-homework-i-hate-it-more-now-than-i-did-when-i-was-the-one/)

[Ayelet Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayelet-waldman/)

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