“I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I kno...” — Ayelet Waldman Quote

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It's easy to make a fuss when you're right. That can be the tagline of my life: 'It's Easy To Make A Fuss When You're Right.'

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.

No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

Fannie Mae has never publicly disclosed how much money it could lose if interest rates rose 1.5 percentage points in a very short period of time.

I've become rather desensitized to how much sexy I put out.

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!