"I had a second trimester abortion. I was……" — Ayelet Waldman
"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 terminate the pregnancy. It was my third pregnancy, and I was very obviously showing. More important, I could feel the baby move."
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Ayelet Waldman
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85 Quotes by Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman has 85 quotes on this site.
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The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child.…
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When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.'…
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I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities…
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The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.
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Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am…
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By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day…
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Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I…
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Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
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I love my husband more than I love my children,
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Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with…
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For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee,
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I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I…
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Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of…
— Avicenna
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Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an…
— Hilde Bruch
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Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and…
— Chinua Achebe
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Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged,…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found,…
— Broda Otto Barnes
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It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of…
— George Orwell
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The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine…
— Frederick Lenz
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I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through…
— Patricia Highsmith
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Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law…
— E. O. Wilson
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
— Anais Nin
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
— George Santayana
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