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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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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Is Valentines Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentines is supposed to be a day about romantic love. – 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 youd 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. – Ayelet Waldman

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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often its a role thats underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in. – Harvey Fierstein

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I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. Its a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether its a great date or something thats just hugely romantic. – Renee Fleming

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I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy. – Edward Burns

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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. – Lynda Barry

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