The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline. — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the… — 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
The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be.… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People… — 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