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People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

Jennifer Weiner

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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
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Film Producer
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Novelist
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Louisiana
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Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.
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I have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.
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I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to tell a different story.
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Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.
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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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Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
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There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.
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I struggle with the fact that men's popular fiction is talked about differently. Books like mine don't get as many reviews and probably won't win any prizes, but they entertain the pants off of hundreds of thousands of women.
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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.
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.
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I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.
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So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed.
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I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.
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My sense is that beautiful women are living in a different world than I am, and that it's a world with benefits but also drawbacks - like, you're on a ticking clock, because the day you stop being supermodel-beautiful is the day that everything the world has to offer you is no longer being offered.
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My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
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