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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

Topics: Company Conscious Enjoy Failings Feminist Gay Insecure Kid Laugh Makes Man Me Someone Stereotypical Want Who Whose Woman

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

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: About Blog Checked First Had He Husband Suicide Thinking

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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

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

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As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Experiences Family Fiction Happened History Immediately Made Mature Meaningful Memory Needed Never Novelist Something Specific Things Use Very Way Writing

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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

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

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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

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

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You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Art Art Forms Book Come Different Feel Filmmakers Forms Job Know Like Make Movie Really Then Two Write You I Feel I Feel Like

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I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Accept Beautiful Different Each English Ideal Kind Love Movie Novel Own Patient Profoundly Terms Think Totally You I Think I Love

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

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Hate Love Mail Read Reader I Love

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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

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

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Novelist

Born: December 11th, 1964

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