Childhood Quote by Ayelet Waldman

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

— 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 two really…

— 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 first married,…

— 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 of despair,…

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— 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... eventually, things…

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— 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 again. We…

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— Ayelet Waldman