37 Ayelet Waldman Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ayelet Waldman

Israeli Novelist

Born: Dec 11, 1964

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Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott

If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee. Ayelet Waldman

Daily Living Top Months Out Column Like Couple Blog Loud Then Regular Producing Your Keeping Lungs

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that. Ayelet Waldman

Motherhood Way Out Pretty About Both Consumed Nonfiction Am Issues Been Expectations Roles Fiction Much Act Societal

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail. Ayelet Waldman

Love Hate Mail Read Reader

My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way. Ayelet Waldman

Confidence Together Long Parents Incredibly Way Kids Secure Stay More More And More Absolute Long Way Friends Forever Goes

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement. Ayelet Waldman

Lesbian Semester Graduation Requirement

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children. Ayelet Waldman

Today Women Focus Become Secondary Focused Out Husbands Developed Left Children Romantic Many Lives

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that. Ayelet Waldman

Love Mother Made Mistakes Secure One Thing Absolutely Know Make Sure How How Much Children The One Thing Them Much Many Thing

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 Three Before Energy State Type Months Mood Characteristic Clarity Detail Never Had Attention Wrote Known Sublime Six Experienced Productive Creative Energy Novels Elevated

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them. Ayelet Waldman

People Writing Humor Met Meet Would About Never Particularly Sure Without Nor Tragedy Survive Did Any Interested Them Who

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

Myself Woman Women Opportunities Men Gender Entitled Constrained Absolutely Call Feminist Same Mean Should Your Who Believes

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