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Own Quotes by 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 wouldn't have millions…
- I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think…
- I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion…
- In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman.…
- My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got…
- A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto…
- There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent…
- One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing…
- As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.
- I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none.…
- Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong