Jennifer Weiner Quotes
If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.
If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.
Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.
The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.
I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.
I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets.
There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.
Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.
The way I see it,” she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.” She said “you kids” in precisely the same tone I would have used for “you infestation of cockroaches
I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.
...thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.
There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.
Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
I'm saying that it's a big decision. Your first love is important. It's part of your story The story you'll tell yourself, the one you'll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.
I don't answer. I shut my eyes and hold my breath and hope whoever it is will think I'm not here and go home.
Have you ever considered that there might be something wrong with your brain?Oh, I think there might be something wrong with everyone else’s.
When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there.. whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.
This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.
