Ayelet Waldman

What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're…

— Ayelet Waldman

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're…

— Ayelet Waldman

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was…

— Ayelet Waldman

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

— Ayelet Waldman

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint…

— Ayelet Waldman

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the…

— Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women…

— Ayelet Waldman

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— Ayelet Waldman

With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time…

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— Ayelet Waldman

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house,…

— Ayelet Waldman

“Even if I’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her…

— Ayelet Waldman

I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and…

— Ayelet Waldman

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the…

— Ayelet Waldman

I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced.…

— Ayelet Waldman

Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They…

— Ayelet Waldman

I am a very nonspiritual person.

— Ayelet Waldman

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

I smoked pot when I was a teenager because other kids were doing it, but I didn't enjoy it that much.

— Ayelet Waldman

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

— Ayelet Waldman

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly…

— Ayelet Waldman

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have…

— Ayelet Waldman

If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say…

— Ayelet Waldman