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It was not always unpleasant to deal with a hysterical woman. One feels so thoroughly righteous in comparison. — Adelle Waldman

Its walls were mirrored, its tables marble, its espresso feral, its pastry stale. — Amy Waldman

Good drivers are people who can put their brains on cruise control. — Adelle Waldman

My teachers were often very eccentric. — Anne Waldman

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — Anne Waldman

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. — Amy Waldman

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes — Amy Waldman

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces. — Anne Waldman

We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness. — Anne Waldman

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility. — Ayelet Waldman

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end. — Amy Waldman

Sorrow can be a bully. — Amy Waldman

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God? — Anne Waldman

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog. — Ayelet Waldman

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you. — Amy Waldman

As a younger person you can come in through many, many gateways. It's like some huge Mandela. You can enter into this and get refreshed. — Anne Waldman

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration. — Anne Waldman

For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to. — Anne Waldman

I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show. — Anne Waldman

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret. — Ayelet Waldman

People never bothered to pay attention to those who served them. Waiters and drivers were the most invisible people in the world. — Ayelet Waldman

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality. — Anne Waldman

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst. — Anne Waldman

World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call. — Anne Waldman

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild. — Anne Waldman

I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy. — Anne Waldman

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline. — Ayelet Waldman

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence. — Ayelet Waldman

We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the rest of consciousness. — Anne Waldman

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement. — Ayelet Waldman

The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years. — Anne Waldman

We're all in this together. — Paul Waldman

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail. — Ayelet Waldman

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger. — Ayelet Waldman

If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others. — Anne Waldman

I wasted years worrying about what other people thought. — Amy Waldman

Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love. — Ayelet Waldman

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism. — Ayelet Waldman