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Quote by Ayelet Waldman
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful. – 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 have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight. – Ayelet Waldman

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One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals. – Ayelet Waldman

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I dont hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I dont panic. My father was the same way. Im the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to? – Curt Schilling

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Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so Ive stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them. – Russell Crowe

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My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. Theres something sweet about them. – Laura Linney

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The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you dont have or that you cant really spare. – Suze Orman

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And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way. – John Boehner

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There arent many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks its cool if youre the bad girl. – Fiona Apple

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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does. – Phil McGraw

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Seven days without laughter makes one weak. – Mort Walker

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