Ayelet Waldman

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may…

— Ayelet Waldman

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

— Ayelet Waldman

I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture.

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— Ayelet Waldman

“I can't imagine the reading is still going on. He's written about Canada, for God's sake. How much can there be to…

— Ayelet Waldman

There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

— Ayelet Waldman

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— 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

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and…

— 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

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the…

— Ayelet Waldman

If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that…

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— Ayelet Waldman

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for…

— Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my…

— Ayelet Waldman

The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system.…

— 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 tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to…

— Ayelet Waldman

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it…

— Ayelet Waldman

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

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental…

— Ayelet Waldman

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and…

— Ayelet Waldman

Perhaps my children will one day pledge their loyalty to the Republican Party. Or perhaps they'll dismiss my liberalism as mild pap,…

— Ayelet Waldman

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

— Ayelet Waldman

Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.

— Ayelet Waldman

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

— Ayelet Waldman

In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom.

— Ayelet Waldman

When you consider America, there are hundreds of millions of people who have smoked marijuana illegally.

— Ayelet Waldman

Nothing makes me roll my eyes faster than a "Coexist" bumper sticker.

— 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

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

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the…

— Ayelet Waldman

When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what…

— Ayelet Waldman

The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods…

— 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

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

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

— Ayelet Waldman

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to…

— Ayelet Waldman