Ayelet Waldman Quotes About Giving
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I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'
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Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
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Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.
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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.
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