Ayelet Waldman

"here is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels."

"When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what he was doing, because I was just faking it. What I want for my daughter is the exact op…"

"Salon.com archives of Ayelet's articles"

"Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less …"

"Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?"

"I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. ."

"hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger."

"Dodgeball? My children were playing dodgeball? That cruel, brutal, violent schoolyard game so mercilessly satirized in the 2004 film with Ben Stiller? The game, more important, that exemplified everyt…"