"Personally, I think four is the perfect number……" — Ayelet Waldman
"Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful."
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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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I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality.…
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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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Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.
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The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for…
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The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no…
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Remember the last show you saw that got a standing ovation? Now try to think of one that had the…
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Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and…
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It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover…
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One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible...
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The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him,…
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