If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place. Ayelet Waldman More Quotes by Ayelet Waldman More Quotes From Ayelet Waldman In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom. Ayelet Waldman bricks mom drinking The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can we just say gender equality and the end of mass incarceration and the final shedding of the vestiges of a slave-based nation? Can we have that, too? Can I have it all? Ayelet Waldman drug-use mental-health finals The New York Times. Ayelet Waldman living But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It's easy to make a fuss when you're right. That can be the tagline of my life: 'It's Easy To Make A Fuss When You're Right.' Ayelet Waldman my-life you research life