Amy Waldman quote: "Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless

I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried pr...
AMY WALDMAN

Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN

I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ...
AMY WALDMAN

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fic...
AMY WALDMAN

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, a...
AMY WALDMAN

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most pe...
AMY WALDMAN

Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when m...
AMY WALDMAN

I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the ...
AMY WALDMAN

While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in Ne...
AMY WALDMAN

And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and c...
AMY WALDMAN

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you s...
AMY WALDMAN

When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's s...
AYELET WALDMAN

Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing ...
AYELET WALDMAN

I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I a...
AYELET WALDMAN

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

I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was o...
AYELET WALDMAN

I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back...
AYELET WALDMAN

Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their ba...
AYELET WALDMAN

The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, es...
AYELET WALDMAN

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes o...
AYELET WALDMAN

It's a good life in this sort of Madame Bovary way. It's beautiful and perfect and seems to be just ...
AYELET WALDMAN

It was a group of two dozen women arrayed around this living room. Four were on my side, and the res...
AYELET WALDMAN

Usually I try not to read that stuff. For someone who writes openly about her life, I have the thinn...
AYELET WALDMAN

Names are important in terms of how you construct your characters' identity, ... But the First Amend...
AYELET WALDMAN

No author loves the idea of not choosing his or her characters' names, ... Mommy Track Mystery.
AYELET WALDMAN

If they want to be someone who is not loathsome, they'll have to wait till the next book.
AYELET WALDMAN

They can be either a freshman at UC San Diego with one too many piercings or a far-too-perfect South...
AYELET WALDMAN

I've always written about maternal ambivalence. It's the subject that consumes me.
AYELET WALDMAN

I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never...
AYELET WALDMAN

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even ...
AYELET WALDMAN

I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared ...
AYELET WALDMAN

Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, c...
AYELET WALDMAN

I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do...
AYELET WALDMAN

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't li...
AYELET WALDMAN

I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body im...
AYELET WALDMAN

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

In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of co...
AYELET WALDMAN

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car...
AYELET WALDMAN

I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a ...
AYELET WALDMAN

Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with y...
AYELET WALDMAN

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: '...
AYELET WALDMAN

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fict...
AYELET WALDMAN

I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approa...
AYELET WALDMAN

But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It...
AYELET WALDMAN

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good moth...
AYELET WALDMAN

A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not...
AYELET WALDMAN

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.
AYELET WALDMAN

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, whi...
AYELET WALDMAN

Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spa...
AYELET WALDMAN

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do...
AYELET WALDMAN

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten...
AYELET WALDMAN

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sym...
AYELET WALDMAN

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

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregn...
AYELET WALDMAN

I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of ...
AYELET WALDMAN

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

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other coun...
AYELET WALDMAN

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men...
AYELET WALDMAN

I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt...
AYELET WALDMAN

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and ho...
AYELET WALDMAN

A modest slowing in China is likely to take developing country growth to 4% in the fourth quarter of...
CLIFF WALDMAN

We are going to have a huge jump, (where) one in four is going to be over 60. The demographic shift ...
CLIFF WALDMAN

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

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium an...
AYELET WALDMAN

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to...
AYELET WALDMAN

In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, ...
AYELET WALDMAN

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agita...
AYELET WALDMAN

I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your oppo...
AYELET WALDMAN

Every moment that I spend with my daughter is a blessing, and she is just a gift from God.
JANE WALDMAN

She's very involved in gymnastics. She's very athletic, she loves to swim and jump around and she us...
JANE WALDMAN

Grey Gardens. Christine and I had talked about it, and she's been so supportive of adoption and out....
JANE WALDMAN

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The...
AMY GRANT

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old...
AMY GRANT

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea...
AMY GRANT

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we pla...
AMY GRANT

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
AMY GRANT

Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd ...
AMY GRANT

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's somethin...
AMY GRANT

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much ...
AMY GRANT

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced...
AMY GRANT

There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
AMY GRANT

I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just e...
AMY GRANT

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature...
AMY GRANT

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
AMY GRANT

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with comp...
AMY GRANT

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a goo...
AMY GRANT

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the C...
AMY GRANT

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect,...
AMY GRANT

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
AMY GRANT

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends...
AMY GRANT

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's sh...
AMY GRANT

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
AMY PURDY

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE

I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine ...
AMY POEHLER

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi...
AMY BLOOM

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conqu...
AMY CHUA

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel...
AMY GRANT

My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset...
AMY BLOOM

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
AMY WINEHOUSE

These people are the air I breathe and the blood I bleed. They are my courage. I will not let them d...
AMY EWING

I think you can do anything you put your mind to
AMY EWING

It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It w...
AMY EWING

Violet’s eyes meet mine. I give her a look that tries to say, “What is wrong with these people?
AMY EWING

Hope is a precious thing, isn’t it,” she says. “And yet, we don’t really appreciate it until...
AMY EWING

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi...
AMY LOWELL

I’ve swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I’m still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited...
AMY LIPTROT

I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined ...
AMY CHUA

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares...
AMY POEHLER

The days of waiting for an outer authority to sanction your life path are over. Follow what matters ...
AMY MCTEAR

It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a ...
AMY PURDY

After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off...
AMY YASBECK

Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the roll...
AMY HECKERLING

Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she...
AMY LANDECKER

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz ...
AMY WINEHOUSE

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and...
AMY ALCOTT

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
AMY VANDERBILT

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If w...
AMY VANDERBILT

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularl...
AMY VANDERBILT

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior....
AMY VANDERBILT

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
AMY RYAN

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power an...
AMY CUDDY

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put i...
AMY HECKERLING

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
AMY GRANT

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became T...
AMY TAN

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
AMY JACKSON

It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks...
AMY VANDERBILT

We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and po...
AMY VANDERBILT

but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
AMY VANDERBILT

They just looked up and there she was.
AMY VANDERBILT

All books are either dreams or swords.
AMY LOWELL

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
AMY LOWELL

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in ...
AMY ADAMS

Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I hav...
AMY ADAMS

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I...
AMY WINEHOUSE

When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smi...
AMY GRANT

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are al...
AMY LOWELL

All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
AMY LOWELL

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
AMY LOWELL

There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing O...
AMY LOWELL

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...
AMY LOWELL

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
AMY LOWELL

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind...
AMY LOWELL

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink dr...
AMY LOWELL

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo...
AMY TAN

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change ...
AMY TAN

Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or sooth...
AMY GERSTLER

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his ...
AMY SEDARIS

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place ...
AMY PLUM

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing el...
AMY CARMICHAEL

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were ...
AMY SEDARIS

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
AMY BLOOM

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just c...
AMY POEHLER

I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ...
AMY POEHLER

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving ...
AMY ENGEL

Share your voice and your heart. Listen to how it falls in with the cosmic symphony. Let it be imper...
AMY MCTEAR

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
AMY CARMICHAEL

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
AMY TAN

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not mere...
AMY VANDERBILT

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
AMY LOWELL

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
AMY TAN

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
AMY TAN

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
AMY TAN

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT

Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
AMY LOWELL

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pre...
AMY CARMICHAEL

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
AMY LOWELL

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
AMY LOWELL

Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
AMY LOWELL

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL

No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE

Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL

Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE

I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER

I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER

The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE

Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY

After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY

Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER

Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.

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Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.

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