What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're… — 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
I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English… — 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
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint… — 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… — 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
The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog. — 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
I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath… — 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 think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I… — 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
