"You can take the babushka off the Jewish……" — Ayelet Waldman
"You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids."
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85 Quotes by Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child.…
- When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.'…
- I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities…
- 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.…
- Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am…
- By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day…
- Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So 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…
- For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee,
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