Ayelet Waldman Quotes

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• The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and…
• When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped the baby from…
• I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by…
• The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.
• I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to…
• Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the…
• By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego…
• Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I…
• Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
• I love my husband more than I love my children,
• Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay…
• For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee,
• I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing…
• If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can…
• As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of…
• Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures…
• 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 children.…
• I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both…
• 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 wouldn't have millions…
• I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch…

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