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It was not always unpleasant to deal with a hysterical woman. One feels so thoroughly righteous in comparison.
— Adelle Waldman
In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
— Amy Waldman
My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.
— Amy Waldman
Good drivers are people who can put their brains on cruise control.
— Adelle Waldman
There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.
— Amy 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
I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.
— Anne Waldman
Debbie's facts coincided miraculously with her opinions
— Amy Waldman
I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.
— Anne Waldman
Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.
— Anne Waldman
I can't imagine the reading is still going on. He's written about Canada, for God's sake. How much can there be to say?
— 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
Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.
— Ayelet Waldman
Sorrow can be a bully.
— Amy Waldman
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
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
She ate ramen noodles from the vending machine, their texture just a few molecular recombinations from the Styrofoam cup containing them.
— Amy Waldman
Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.
— Anne 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
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 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
It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.
— Anne Waldman
In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.
— Ayelet Waldman
Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.
— Anne Waldman
If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.
— Adelle Waldman
through the transcript. Some colleagues, at least, found the whole exercise droll. Fisher Ames, a Federalist
— Michael Waldman
When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.
— Anne Waldman
As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.
— Ayelet Waldman
If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.
— Anne Waldman
I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.
— Anne Waldman
[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.
— Amy Waldman
We need a world-wide Department of Peace.
— Anne Waldman
I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.
— Anne Waldman
Smart people only mated with smart people, class structures would ossify. There'd be a permanent underclass of stupid people.
— Adelle Waldman
Don't succumb to the fear; don't mistake the absolutism of Khan's opposition for morality
— Amy Waldman
Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
— Ayelet 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
I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.
— Amy Waldman
If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.
— Anne Waldman
[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
— Ayelet Waldman
I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.
— Ayelet Waldman
We're all in this together.
— Paul Waldman
The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.
— Anne 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
My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.
— Ayelet Waldman
The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.
— 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
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
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
My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.
— Ayelet Waldman
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
— Ayelet Waldman
In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.
— Amy Waldman
I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.
— Anne Waldman
Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
— Amy Waldman