Phrase by 'Ayelet Waldman'

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There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

Author: Ayelet Waldman - Israeli Novelist
  Life , You , Nature , Parenting


I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

Author: Ayelet Waldman - Israeli Novelist
  Value , Her , Serenity , Mother-In-Law


If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Author: Ayelet Waldman - Israeli Novelist
  Love , Children , I Am , Good , Mother


Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

Author: Ayelet Waldman - Israeli Novelist
  Life , You , Woman , Abortion


I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?

Author: Ayelet Waldman - Israeli Novelist
  Myself , Crazy , Better , Beautiful


I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.

Author: Ayelet Waldman - Israeli Novelist
  Day , Children , School , Hate


The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

Author: Ayelet Waldman - Israeli Novelist
  Beautiful , Person , Fun , Challenge


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.

Author: Ayelet Waldman - Israeli Novelist
  Me , Boy , Nature , Woman


I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.

Author: Ayelet Waldman - Israeli Novelist
  People , Depression , Suicide , Suffering


A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.

Author: Ayelet Waldman - Israeli Novelist
  Children , Good , Art , Mother


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