My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. Ayelet Waldman More Quotes by Ayelet Waldman More Quotes From Ayelet Waldman Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him. Ayelet Waldman labels mother baby I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed. Ayelet Waldman passion successful children Nothing makes me roll my eyes faster than a "Coexist" bumper sticker. Ayelet Waldman bumper-sticker faster eye I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that. Ayelet Waldman issues motherhood expectations It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction. Ayelet Waldman emotional kids children Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits. Ayelet Waldman parent class kids I am a very nonspiritual person. Ayelet Waldman persons As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful. Ayelet Waldman writing meaningful memories I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them. Ayelet Waldman tragedy writing people For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee. Ayelet Waldman banshees couple months That connection between hormones and mood is so important to get a handle on, and it's also really important when you're considering taking medication. Ayelet Waldman connections mood important Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not. Ayelet Waldman mother inspiring son I love my husband more than I love my children. Ayelet Waldman bad-mother husband children Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children. Ayelet Waldman bipolar order children The statistic that 67 percent of women's admissions to the psychiatric facilities are during the week before menstruation is critically important to every woman, and to every woman who feels she suffers from depression. Ayelet Waldman week important suffering By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat. Ayelet Waldman mother soccer children I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful. Ayelet Waldman mothers-day hurt inspiring It's incredibly important to me that my children don't put anything in their bodies that they haven't tested first - that's how you end up dying. Ayelet Waldman important dying children Here are my Mommy Messages: Wear a condom and test your Molly. Ayelet Waldman condom tests messages What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial. Ayelet Waldman drunk kids thinking
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