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I'm not cut out to be a famous person I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.
Jennifer Weiner
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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
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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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The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
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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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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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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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Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
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