Ayelet Waldman Quotes

I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: December 11, 1964

Topics

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I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Joan Rivers

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Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue.

Joel Fuhrman

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I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.

Jens Lekman

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I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

John Engler

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I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

Simon Armitage

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When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

Tori Amos

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If I do my job well, then God will smile on my offspring and on their offspring. I'm sure my father is seeing a blessing in me.

Marvin Gaye

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Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

Jason Mraz

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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

Anne Enright

PeopleThinkYouSayTrueIrish

I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It's very difficult to audition for comedy in the vacuum of a small room, but it's the only way most do it.

Allison Jones

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There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Sylvester McCoy

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The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

Shania Twain

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