I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.
Ayelet WaldmanWhen you consider America, there are hundreds of millions of people who have smoked marijuana illegally.
Ayelet WaldmanThe thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.
Ayelet WaldmanThere is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.
Ayelet WaldmanThere is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.
Ayelet Waldman