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Quote by Ayelet Waldman
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself betwe

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 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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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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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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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. – Blaise Pascal

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I think I have a dualistic nature. – Bob Dylan

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The elusive nature of love… it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and its just fluttering and its gone. – Mick Jagger

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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. – Pam Brown

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Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities? – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream. – David Miliband

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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. – Galileo Galilei

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There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records? – Ellie Goulding

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