Ayelet Waldman Quotes

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• If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Passion, Emotional

  "Ayelet Waldman Stands By Essay That Infuriated Moms Nearly A Decade Ago". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  "Ayelet Waldman's Memoir Of A 'Bad Mother'". 'Fresh Air' with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 5, 2009.

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• The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Writing, Differences, Discipline

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• Here are my Mommy Messages: Wear a condom and test your Molly.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Tests, Messages, Condom

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• 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 our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• 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 you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Jobs, Children, Parent

  FaceBook post by Ayelet Waldman from Apr 27, 2010

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• I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Creative, Focus, Sublime

  Ayelet Waldman (2017). “A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life”, p.13, Knopf

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• The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Believe, World, May

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Suicide, People, Bipolar

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• I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Hate, Book

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• Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Betrayal, Littles, Protection

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• What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Kids, Thinking, Drunk

  "The Case for Taking a Very Little Bit of LSD Nearly Every Day". Interview with Jenny Luna, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2017.

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• I am a very nonspiritual person.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Persons

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.

  Ayelet Waldman

  War, Years, Jail

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The idea of going down to Central or South American and taking ayahuasca and shitting my pants and puking in a circle of overprivileged white people is not my idea of a good time. That's not going to happen.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Ayahuasca, Circles, Ideas

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.

  Ayelet Waldman

  White, Class, Firsts

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Perfect, World

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• I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

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  Views, Paris, Honor

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• I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Hate, Alcohol, Culture

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Believe, Feel Better, Fundamentals

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• I smoked pot when I was a teenager because other kids were doing it, but I didn't enjoy it that much.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Teenager, Kids, Pot

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Teenager, Thinking, Giving

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• I've never really been interested in recreational drug use.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Drug Use, Drug, Use

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Nihilism, Narcissism, Impulsive

  Ayelet Waldman (2006). “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits”, Doubleday Books

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