Quote by Ayelet Waldman
So many women today have become so focused on their children, they

So many women today have become so focused on their children, theyve developed these romantic entanglements with their childrens lives, and the husbands are secondary. Theyre left out. And the romantic focus is on the children. – Ayelet Waldman

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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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I feed my kids organic food and milk, but Ive also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to The Simpsons. – Ayelet Waldman

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If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. – Tom Hanks

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Youre an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational – and probably sexual! – George Herman

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I dont think that digital photography is romantic yet. Its not sympathetic the way that film is. – Matthew Modine

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I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess thats quite romantic. – Orlando Bloom

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