Jennifer Weiner Quotes - Page 4

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• Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

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  Broken, Sound, Doe

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Grateful, Thinking, Care

  Jennifer Weiner (2013). “Good Men: An eShort Story”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• I like blogs. they're good times.

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  Good Times, Blogs

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• It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops.

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  Needs, Weight, Suits

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion.

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  Dog, Animal, Thinking

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed.

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  Eight, Years, Here I Am

  Jennifer Weiner (2013). “Good Men: An eShort Story”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.

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  Two, House, Parent

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

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  Tongue, Conversation, Get Real

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• I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

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  Tunes, Three, Trouble

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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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  Daughter, Mother, Book

  "A feminist fights back against 'chick lit' label" by Jane Ganahl, www.sfgate.com. October 30, 2005.

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• Well, you can’t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they’re doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you’ll let it affect you

  Jennifer Weiner

  Crazy, Decision, Conscious

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

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  Believe, Writing, Ifs

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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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  People, World, Want

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people.

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  Love You, Thinking, People

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.

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  Girl, Nursing, Men

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

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  Bed, Couches, Futons

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Little Earthquakes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.

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  Summer, Baby, Husband

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I wished that my job was baking muffins in a muffin shop, where all I'd have to do was crack eggs and measure flour and make change, and nobody could abuse me, and where they'd even expect me to be fat. Every flab roll and cellulite crinkle would serve as testimony to the excellence of my baked goods

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  Jobs, Eggs, Abuse

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Baby, Jobs, Husband

  Jennifer Weiner (2006). “Little Earthquakes”, p.509, Simon and Schuster

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• Addie, please." More tears dripped down her cheeks. "Don't be so hard." "Oh, please," I muttered...and that was as far as I got. 'You broke my heart' were the words that had risen to my mouth, but I couldn't say them. That was what you said to a boyfriend, a lover, not your best friend. She'd laugh. And I'd had enough of being laughed at. I'd worked hard to get to a place where it didn't happen anymore, where I didn't move through life like a walking target, where it was just me and my paints and brushes and my big empty bed every night. "You weren't a good friend," I said instead.

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  Moving, Heart, Good Friend

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Best Friends Forever: A Novel”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Mother, Law, Serenity

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Little Earthquakes”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

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  Exercise, Firsts, Bigs

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• The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

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  Dog, Stupid, Sound

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Little Earthquakes”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.

  Jennifer Weiner

  World, Like Me

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• I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

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  Book, Media, Giving

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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