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I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.
Jennifer Weiner
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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
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Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
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If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.
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I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion.
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I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.
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The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
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This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.
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