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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.

Jennifer Weiner

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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
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DeRidder
Louisiana
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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 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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Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
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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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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 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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I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break.
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You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.
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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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Do I want to spend my diminished working hours writing or answering email? Now I have somebody read through them. If someone has something really important to tell me I write back. Otherwise they get the auto reply.
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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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There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.
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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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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.
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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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