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I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.
~ Ayelet Waldman
After
Attention
Baby
Because
Being
Brother
Care
Child
Children
Chose
Compelled
Compromised
Consequences
Contend
Control
Could
Did
Died
Diversion
End
Genetically
His
Life
Massive
Parental
Perfect
Raise
Something
Want
Wanted
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I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Energies
Far
Guilt
Maternal
Much
Regret
Too
Too Much
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I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've 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
Allowed
Also
Been
Buy
Even
Feed
Food
Kids
Known
Milk
Odd
Organic
Organic Food
Out
Simpsons
The Simpsons
TV
Watch
Week
Weekends
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I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to terminate the pregnancy. It was my third pregnancy, and I was very obviously showing. More important, I could feel the baby move.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Abortion
Baby
Child
Choice
Could
Diagnosed
Feel
Genetic
Had
Important
Made
More
Move
Obviously
Pregnancy
Pregnant
Second
Showing
Terminate
Third
Very
Who
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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.
~ Ayelet Waldman
After-School
Back
Before
Books
Children
Crumbs
Day
Did
Doubt
Forth
Hate
Homework
Hour
Kitchen
Kitchen Table
More
Now
Out
School
Seated
Snack
Spread
Table
Textbooks
Than
Them
Without
Worst
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I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Absolutely
Children
How
How Much
I Love
Know
Love
Made
Make
Many
Mistakes
Mother
Much
One Thing
Secure
Sure
The One Thing
Them
Thing
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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
About
Aware
Being
Daughters
Done
Even
Everything
Idiocy
Power
Prevent
Them
Two
Weight
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I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Bipolar
Commit
Depression
Disorder
Even
Frightening
Higher
Information
Known
Learned
Less
Manic
May
Naturally
Once
People
Rates
Serious
Suffered
Suffering
Suicide
Those
Up
Which
Will
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I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Hate
I Love
Love
Mail
Read
Reader
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I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Accept
Beautiful
Different
Each
English
I Love
I Think
Ideal
Kind
Love
Movie
Novel
Own
Patient
Profoundly
Terms
Think
Totally
You
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I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Absolutely
Believes
Call
Constrained
Entitled
Feminist
Gender
Mean
Men
Myself
Opportunities
Same
Should
Who
Woman
Women
Your
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I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle or later part of the second trimester, in a way that you feel about it in that you grow attached.
~ Ayelet Waldman
About
Actually
Attached
Between
Difference
Early
Feel
First
Grow
Know
Later
Mean
Middle
Part
Qualitative
Second
Think
Way
You
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I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's 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
Another
Attempt
Between
Boy
Cocktails
Dozen
Half
Her
Herself
Loose
Mama
Me
Monumental
Nature
Pity
Pry
Sympathize
Take
Task
Two
Who
Will
Woman
Young
Young Woman
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I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.
~ Ayelet Waldman
After
Belly
Children
Doomed
Elastic
Flabby
Four
Get
Life
More
My Life
Myself
Pants
Pregnancy
Rest
Stretched
Tell
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I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'
~ Ayelet Waldman
About
Approach
Asked
Blog
Blogs
Children
Flowering
Giving
Interviews
Like
Made
Most
My Own
Narcissism
None
Obscene
Own
Parents
Restraint
Said
Same
Say
Sense
Tend
Virtually
Writing
Written
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I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.
~ Ayelet Waldman
About
Absurd
Behaving
Being
Children
Every
Had
I Think
I Wish
Instance
Just
Kind
Lesson
Like
Lost
Make
Mean
Never
Other
People
Physical
Point
Punishment
Remember
Sibling
Tattooed
Terrible
Think
Understand
Use
Wish
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I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?
~ Ayelet Waldman
Anorexia
Anorexic
Beautiful
Better
Body
Body Image
Came
Crazy
Daughters
End
Everything
Happier
Image
Just
Lack
More
Myself
Refer
Saved
Self-Discipline
Smarter
Than
Theoretical
Too
Up
Used
What If
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I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Graduation
Lesbian
Requirement
Semester
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I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'
~ Ayelet Waldman
Again
Born
Came
Canadian
Father
Fight
Holocaust
Homeland
I Was Born
Israel
Jewish
Large
Large Part
Men
Men And Women
Motive
Never
Parents
Part
Pioneers
Reaction
Slogan
Wave
Who
Women
Young
Young Men
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I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Accepting
Appeared
Appreciating
Finally
First
Her
Married
Mother-In-Law
Now
Serenity
Value
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11 December, 1964
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