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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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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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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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. – C. S. Lewis

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Nature holds all the answers — go outside and ask some questions — open your heart and listen to the response! – Amethyst Wyldfyre, AnswersFromYourAngels.com

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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. – Johann von Goethe

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