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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.

~Ayelet Waldman

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The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: About Adolescent Antipathy Average Care Combine Deal Even Fear Feel Good Good Ones Inspired Like Most Offenders People Population Seems Teenager Them Thing Toward Unpleasant Violence Wants You Youth Youthful

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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?

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: America Any Any Other Country Become Change Country Dangerous Day Despite Even Fact Help Life Majority More Offenders One Day Other Question Released Simple Stark Terms Than Them Truth Truth Is Vast Vast Majority Violent Want Will World Youth

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I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Again Born Came Canadian Father Fight Holocaust Homeland Israel Jewish Large Large Part Men Men And Women Motive Never Parents Part Pioneers Reaction Slogan Wave Who Women Young Young Men I Was Born

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My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

~Ayelet Waldman

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

~Ayelet Waldman

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I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.'

~Ayelet Waldman

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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.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Anxiety Attorney Because Caring Caused Children Chose Contributing Despite Earning End Fact Family Felt Home Kids Knew Less Marriage Me Our Periods Rather Stay Still Than Work Worth

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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

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

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Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.

~Ayelet Waldman

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Novelist

Born: December 11th, 1964

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