"Look, Mother, I am never going to be……" — Jennifer Crusie
"Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture"
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81 Quotes by Jennifer Crusie
Jennifer Crusie has 81 quotes on this site.
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Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly…
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If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight
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I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways.
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You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope…
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Zach had brought her a dog.
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It was a lot easier when we could just brand'em," Ben said. "Then everybody'd know not to mess with our…
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I'm Min's fairy godmother, Charm Boy,' Liza said, frowning down at him. 'And if you don't give her a happily…
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He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.…
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Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are.
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Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.
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His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.
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If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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