293 Quotes by Jennifer Weiner

Every mother I’ve ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

The first time around, she’d done the surgeries, the radiation, the chemotherapy. She’d lost her hair, lost her appetite and her energy, lost her left breast and six months of her life.

Savasana – corpse pose – is the hardest pose of all. You would think, ‘What could be hard about lying on the floor?’ But the truth is that we, as humans, are not wired to be still and do nothing.

I believed in newspapers’ mission, the importance of their role as a watchdog, holding the powerful accountable, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

Inadequacy and impostor syndrome are painful. They’re also great motivators.

A man takes care of his house, and a man takes care of his tools.

Change the setting, change the mood... She’d taught him to make himself go outside if he was in, or inside if he was out, to interrupt the plummet with something as simple as making a cup of tea or spending a few minutes working on crossword puzzles.

A body was just a body, just a vessel for her soul, and she was under no obligation to keep her body looking any certain way, no more than she was obliged to do anything just because it was customary, or traditional, or expected of women in America. She didn’t have to get married, she didn’t have to have kids, and she didn’t have to be thin.

But if, in the end, she never lived the glittering, rich-lady life of her youthful imaginings, she’d have a life that made her happy.