Quote by Ayelet Waldman
Look, if you ask a child, Would you rather have a fulfilled mother

Look, if you ask a child, Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath, theyll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think its really important that children dont feel their parents emotional lives depend on their success. – Ayelet Waldman

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I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mamas 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. – Ayelet Waldman

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By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins. – Ayelet Waldman

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Im sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but Ive never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them. – Ayelet Waldman

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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy

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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy. – Al Yankovic

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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit. – Rand Paul

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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. – Mikhail Lermontov

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