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Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Am Baby Bad Best Crimes Fit Head Him Label Lowest Many Maternal Most Mother Seems Serious I Am

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When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Abortion Anything Choose Doing Feels Full Hypocritical Less Me Must Ramifications Reality Responsibility Selfish Understanding

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Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Ask Child Children Depend Emotional Every Every Time Feel Fulfilled Important Lives Look Mother Parents Pick Rather Really Stay-At-Home Success Think Time Would You I Think

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I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Graduation Lesbian Requirement Semester

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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

Topics: Become Children Developed Focus Focused Husbands Left Lives Many Out Romantic Secondary Today Women

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Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: About Children Day Love Make Romantic Romantic Love Supposed Valentine Valentine's Day Your

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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

Topics: Absolutely Children How How Much Know Love Made Make Many Mistakes Mother Much One Thing Secure Sure The One Thing Them Thing I Love

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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

Topics: Attention Before Characteristic Clarity Creative Detail Elevated Energy Experienced Focus Had Known Months Mood Never Novels Productive Six State Sublime Three Type Wrote

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My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Children Divorced Done Early Got Had He Husband Kids Know Make Man Marrying Message Met Mistake My Own Own Them Very Without Woman Worst Would

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I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: After Carry Certainly Child Childhood Children Come Consider Early Early Childhood Harder Inevitable Infancy Life Love Millions Our Own Passed Passion Successful Think To Love True Unrequited Were Who You Dna

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Novelist

Born: December 11th, 1964

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