I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog. — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
It's incredibly important to me that my children don't put anything in their bodies that they haven't tested first - that's how… — 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
