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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Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them. – Ayelet Waldman

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mom
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By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat. – Ayelet Waldman

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As far as the leading man/romantic lead, Ill tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on Catch and Release. God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion. – Timothy Olyphant

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I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior. – Julie Delpy

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I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone. – Gary Coleman

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I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting – I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. – Nigel Kennedy

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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. – Keith Richards

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When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. Its like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body. – Bill Lee

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