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Ayelet Waldman Quotes - Page 3

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.

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: Precipitating the mother of all uproars". Interview with Carol Memmott, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 29, 2009.

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.

"‘Impossible Pursuits’ on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman". Interview with Katie Hafner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.

"The Case for Taking a Very Little Bit of LSD Nearly Every Day". Interview with Jenny Luna, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2017.

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.69, Anchor

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 on Acting Your Age". Interview with Tim J Luddy, www.motherjones.com. November, 2009.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor