Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldmanis an Israeli American novelist and essayist. She has written seven mystery novels in the series The Mommy-Track Mysteries and four other novels. She has also written autobiographical essays about motherhood. Waldman spent three years working as a federal public defender and her fiction draws on her experience as a lawyer...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 December 1964
CountryIsrael
mother children mistake
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.
mother children husband
If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.
beautiful fun artist
The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.
views paris honor
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.
mother daughter two
I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.
believe mean opportunity
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.
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It was a group of two dozen women arrayed around this living room. Four were on my side, and the rest were trying to figure out how to hang me.
consumes maternal subject written
I've always written about maternal ambivalence. It's the subject that consumes me.
books-and-reading next till wait
If they want to be someone who is not loathsome, they'll have to wait till the next book.
amendment construct names terms
Names are important in terms of how you construct your characters' identity, ... But the First Amendment is more important than anything.
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It's a good life in this sort of Madame Bovary way. It's beautiful and perfect and seems to be just what you want but ends up becoming a gilded cage.
children passion emotional
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,
creative focus sublime
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.
betrayal littles protection
Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?