293 Quotes by Jennifer Weiner

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.” – GRACE PALEY.

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

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing ‘The Aeneid’ and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Your first love is important. It’s part of your story. The story you’ll tell yourself, the one you’ll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.

You’ll get through it,” she said, leaving out the part I already knew-because you’re a mother now. Because mothers don’t have a choice.

People don’t like to see things that aren’t perfect. It reminds them of what could go wrong in their own lives, I guess.

It was easy to make good choices when you had a web of people supporting you, not to mention money as a safety net when everyone else in your family did the right thing, went to the right college, held down a job.

My parents aren’t cruel to them. They pay them well. It’s more that they treat them like they’re pets.

Everyone tries to put the best versions of themselves across. To fake it. And when they’re not doing that, they’re sitting behind their screens, passing judgment and feeling superior to whoever they think’s being sexist or racist that day.