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My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way.
Ayelet Waldman
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Ayelet Waldman
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: December 11
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There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'
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My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.
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In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.
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I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
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I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.
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I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.
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I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.
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