Ayelet Waldman Quotes

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.

My grandma was a very traditional woman but, at the same time, would want me to have kids.

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.

I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.

Being a grandmother is probably the most important thing to me. I have two really rambunctious little ones, and I love spending time with them.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

We are building our own tradition of families for which we demand respect.

Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.

I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.

When my mother read 'The Joy Luck Club', she was always complaining to me how she had to tell her friends that, no, she was not the mother or any of the mothers in the book.

I'm a grandmother.

I grew up with an Italian family in an era when a woman's path was laid out for her: You got married and had children. Simple, right? Then I got to a point around the age of 30 when I had three little children and was a single mom, and I realized life was not so simple.

I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.

Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

I love being a grandmother.

I have four grandchildren now and I love being a granny.

Because my parents are Muslim, there's no doubt they wished I would marry someone Muslim.