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You Quotes by Ayelet Waldman
- It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children.…
- 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 mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know,…
- 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.…
- Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But…
- Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the…
- 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…
- 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…
- Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend…
- There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'
- 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 different…
- Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar…
- By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth…
- I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out,…
- The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you…
- The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can…
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- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
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