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
Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter… — 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
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
