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By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Am Any Bed Building By The Time Car Castles Children Correct Day Drained Go Her Lego Mother Precisely Shopping Soccer Spent Time Who Working I Am

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But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It's easy to make a fuss when you're right. That can be the tagline of my life: 'It's Easy To Make A Fuss When You're Right.'

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Easy Feel Fuss Homework Kids Life Make Much My Life Our Really Research Right Side Strongly Too Too Much Way You

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Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Because Behavioral Bipolar Children Cognitive Depressed Disorder Go Loud Mixed Order States Tend Terribly Therapy Which Yell I Can

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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

Topics: Children Course Dispassionate Everyone Firm Just Just Be Never Perfect Perfect World World Yell

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I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: About Absurd Behaving Being Children Every Had Instance Just Kind Lesson Like Lost Make Mean Never Other People Physical Point Punishment Remember Sibling Tattooed Terrible Think Understand Use Wish I Think I Wish

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There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Annoying Find Nothing Phrase Quite You

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You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Dress Expect Going Grandkids Her Jeans Jewish Marc Mother Off Pair Seven She Still Take Up You

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I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Another Attempt Between Boy Cocktails Dozen Half Her Herself Loose Mama Me Monumental Nature Pity Pry Sympathize Take Task Two Who Will Woman Young Young Woman

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The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and this can be terrifying. I know, because I was a daughter of a mother with a changeable temperament.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Attractive Because Capacity Changeable Child Daughter Emotion Exhausting Extravagant Finds Husband Know Me Moods Mother Temperament Terrifying

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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.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: About Aware Being Daughters Done Even Everything Idiocy Power Prevent Them Two Weight

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Novelist

Born: December 11th, 1964

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