Love Quotes by Ayelet Waldman

8 Love quotes by Ayelet Waldman

Ayelet Waldman’s love reflections are concise, blending intellectual curiosity with emotional honesty. These eight snippets offer a quick glimpse of her reflective voice.

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Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick…

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I love my husband more than I love my children,

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“That was true, Iris would sometimes think, about marriage: it was only a boat, too. A wooden boat, difficult to build, even…

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Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

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A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses…

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Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair,…

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Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

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“Love and marriage are about work and compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being dissapointed , and deciding to…

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If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things…

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I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their…

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Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable.…

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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…

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“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,…

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