Ayelet Waldman quotes - page 4

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time. (Ayelet Waldman)
I am a very nonspiritual person. View quote
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There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better. View quote
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In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first. View quote
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I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt. View quote
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I've never really been interested in recreational drug use. View quote
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States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous war on drugs that was actually counterproductive. View quote
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When you consider America, there are hundreds of millions of people who have smoked marijuana illegally. View quote
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You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids. View quote
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I was terrified of LSD. I don't want to get arrested. View quote
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Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband. (Ayelet Waldman)
Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement. View quote
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In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom. View quote
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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? View quote
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If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say I'm not going to be running off to India to join an ashram anytime soon. View quote
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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. View quote
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Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture. (Ayelet Waldman)
I believe the approach we take to talking to our kids about drugs can, in some cases, mean the difference between life and death. So my approach is really simple: I just don't want them to die. And I want them to be able to save someone's life if they see someone die. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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