Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic… — 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
