Quotes by Ayelet Waldman

Ayelet Waldman

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

Meaningful

Memories

Writing

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

Certain

Fallibility

Parent

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 can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Children

Faithful

Mother

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

America

Country

Simple

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn’t earning.

Children

Home

Kids

Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.

Abortion

Baby

Ultrasounds

For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.

Banshees

Couple

Months

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

Condom

Messages

Tests

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, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

Hurt

Kids

People

I am a very nonspiritual person.

Persons

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Agendas

Alcohol

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Artist

Ayahuasca

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Beautiful

Believe

Book

Boys

Bravery

Bricks

Bumper Sticker

Certain

Children

Circles

Class

Condom

Connections

Country

Couple

Culture

Daughter

Differences

Different

Discipline

Dresses

Drinking

Drug

Drug Use

Drunk

Dying

Equal Pay

Eye

Faces

Failing

Faithful

Fallibility

Faster

Father

Feel Better

Feminist

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Quotes by Ayelet Waldman

Ayelet Waldman

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

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 can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn’t earning.

Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.

For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.

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

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, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

I am a very nonspiritual person.

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