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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,'
Jennifer Weiner
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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
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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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I'm not cut out to be a famous person I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.
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I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
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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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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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If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.
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When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.
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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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Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.
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I like blogs. they're good times.
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My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
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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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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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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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