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Jennifer Weiner Quotes

«I wasn't trying to whap anybody over the head with my own politics or my own beliefs, ... But I do think there are many social critics on the right who've made great careers for themselves going around the country telling women to stay home. ... There's a romanticism about motherhood, that you can drop out of the cold, hard male world of working, and get that brass ring of motherhood ... but I think that what feminism fought for was every woman to do what she wanted to. The message increasingly is that you can have one or the other, but not both. And men, well, they get both.»
«I honestly don't get that upset about that label, ... Whether you call it 'Chick Lit,' 'Mommy Lit' or anything else. ... I get so passionate about it sometimes, then I realize that 99 percent of the people who buy my books don't think about the label. They think Chick Lit is just gum.»
«I look to writers like Edith Wharton, ... Writers who were so specific about the things surrounding their characters, down to the kind of wine and the china, etc. It's a way of locating your characters in their universe ... when you mention a brand name, people know who you're talking about.»
«Oh, it's all true,»
«(Maggie) comes out good in the end ? just like me,»
«not necessarily because I want to make the dishes, but for relaxation and inspiration.»
«Weight is the physical reality for the character, but it's also a metaphor for all the ways women feel they don't fit in,»
«I remember finishing that book tour thinking, 'Is there not one woman in this entire country who's happy with herself and feeling good?' That was a little depressing.»
«There was not one American actress who had the acting chops and was either willing to gain enough weight or was that size already, ... That to me is a very sad comment on the sort of diversity in Hollywood.»
«But they're going to be raising them at a standard the likes the world has never seen. With this class and that class, this sport and that sport, and languages and tumbling and dancing and fencing.»

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