1810 quotes by israeli authors for you to enjoy

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. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it. Ayelet Waldman

You Surrender Progress Husband Own Pay Every Assumed Marriages Some My Own Area Knowing Call Without Traditional His Roles Often Your Used Union Bills Even Competence

How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not. Ayelet Waldman

Gay Son People Men Assume Relationships Intimate Kidding Laugh Maintain How Mothers Shop Want Straight Them Many

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist. Ayelet Waldman

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The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog. Ayelet Waldman

Husband First Thinking Suicide About Had He Checked Blog

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. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.' Ayelet Waldman

Writing Made Parents Giving Narcissism Own Sense Approach Virtually Interviews Say About Restraint My Own Tend Obscene Written Like Most None Said Blog Blogs Same Children Asked Flowering

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

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes. Ayelet Zurer

Big Fond Small Scenes Very Movies Them Much Even Actor

I did an episode on the TV show 'Awake,' and I thought, 'Wow, that's really hard.' To do that so fast and to do that, if it's very successful, for nine months out of the year, for a bunch of good years, that's challenging. But, it was interesting. It's a good show. You'd have to have a very good character, I guess. Ayelet Zurer

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I'm an actress. In this sense, my profession is less complex than that of a model. True, they're into beauty in Hollywood, and it is age-related, but you can't put a girl with hot lips and no wrinkles and say: 'That's the mother of a 14-year-old.' Ayelet Zurer

You Mother Girl Wrinkles Beauty Sense Say Complex Put Hot True Than Model Lips Hollywood Less Profession Actress

From a very young age, I would fall off the bed and wake up on the floor because of dreams. I have a memory from the age of four in which I felt God. Ayelet Zurer

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Attacking innocent people is always obscene. Ayman Odeh

People Innocent Innocent People Attacking Obscene Always

I am very wanted in my homeland. I am part of the scenery, part of the region. I resemble it. Ayman Odeh

Scenery Part Am Very Wanted Region Resemble Homeland

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population. Ayman Odeh

Democracy Struggle Equality Really Population Why

Quotes by israeli authors