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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
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Film Producer
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DeRidder
Louisiana
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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.
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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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Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as I put pen to paper, it became a story [Hunger Heart], not something happening to me but something I was recording.
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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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Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.
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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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My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
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I'm not in charge of my life.
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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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Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
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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 was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
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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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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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As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn’t matter, I knew that to her it did.
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I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.
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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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Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
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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 could have told him that nothing was safe and that no matter how careful you were and how hard you tried, there were still accidents, hidden traps, and snares. You could get killed on an airplane or crossing the street. Your marriage could fall apart when you weren't looking your husband could lose his job our baby could get sick or die.
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