293 Quotes by Jennifer Weiner

She knew she’d be hearing that voice, those words, on an endless loop in her brain, maybe for the rest of her life.

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 divorce.

How could I live a life where the person who’d built and experienced and created it alongside me, the person who’d seen me in a hundred different moods, at my highest, at my lowest, in the middle of a C-section with my uterus laid out on my belly, was gone?

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.

The organic produce guy, a young man who’d left Brooklyn in order to minimize his carbon footprint and consume only things he could make or grow himself. This had come to involve... going toilet-paper free the year before, and making his wife use discarded athletic socks for her monthly cycle.‘That poor girl!’ said Sylvie, privately resolving to figure out where the young woman was living and anonymously deliver some tampons, the really bad kind, with non biodegradable plastic applicators.

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.

Kau harus membiarkan dirimu beristirahat sekali waktu, bahkan meski kau ibu terbaik di dunia.

The measure of a man is, does he know how to love. Clement Sills knew how to love. That’s what he did. That’s what he taught every single one of us who were lucky enough to know him.

Research shows that shaming fat folks into thinness doesn’t work. And come on if it did, most of the fat women in the world would have probably disappeared by now.