States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I believe the approach we take to talking to our kids about drugs can, in some cases, mean the difference between life… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system.… — 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 Image
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 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 first married,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working. — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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