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I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
Jennifer Weiner
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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
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People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'
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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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There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.
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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.
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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.
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It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops.
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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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I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.
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I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.
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Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.
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Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.
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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.
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I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.
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Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
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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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There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.
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I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.
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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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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'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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