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I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbro...

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Red Hook Road

That was true, Iris would sometimes think, about marriage: it was only a boat, too. A wooden boat, d...

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Red Hook Road

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disa...

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Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Even if i'm setting myself up for failure, I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in ...

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Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes

I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock ...

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I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor wou...

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Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a da...

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There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagin...

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During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an atto...

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So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entan...

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Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadeq...

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Ayelet Waldman

Novelist

Born: 1964-12-11

Died: N/A

Ayelet Waldman (born December 11, 1964) is an American writer of fiction, born in Jerusalem, and raised in Montreal and New Jersey. She is married to the novelist Michael Chabon.More