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I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Adolescent Desperate Devotion Face Felt Kids Maintain Me My Own Once Only Own Sometimes Thought I Can

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I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: About Any Did Humor Interested Meet Met Never Nor Particularly People Sure Survive Them Tragedy Who Without Would Writing

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The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Ask Despise Despises Every Get Helpless Ideas Kind Know Loathe Question Reader Response Simple Single Usual Where Writer You Your

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Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Apart Catch Crowd Despair Here Hint Hoping Listening Little Lives Makes Malice Most Spend Standing Story Them Think Tiny Watching Writers

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My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Article Began Hook Many New Newspaper Novel Red Road Short Years Years Ago

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Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Feminist Group Had Know Listen Mom Raised Sit Stairs Them Top Used Well You I Was Raised 1970S

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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.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Absolutely Believes Call Constrained Entitled Feminist Gender Mean Men Myself Opportunities Same Should Who Woman Women Your

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I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle or later part of the second trimester, in a way that you feel about it in that you grow attached.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: About Actually Attached Between Difference Early Feel First Grow Know Later Mean Middle Part Qualitative Second Think Way You

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Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar disorder. And I'm not saying that every, you know, I'm not accusing every memoirist of being bipolar. But I think in a way it's kind of a gift.

~Ayelet Waldman

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Novelist

Born: December 11th, 1964

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