There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“I know that what had happened with my father - his insults, his criticism, the way he made me feel that I… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.”… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The way I see it,” she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.” She said “you kids” in precisely… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“I always wondered, though, what the fathers felt as they drove up the street they used to drive down every night, and… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“face and figure from my dad’s mother, Grandma Sadie, who was tall,” — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own! — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
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… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
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… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“How do you find happiness in a body like yours...like mine? How do you find courage to follow anything anywhere if you don't feel… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
