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If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

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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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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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Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
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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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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 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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I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.
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If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.
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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 don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
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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 sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?
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I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.
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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 have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.
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Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.
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