Quotes by Jennifer Weiner

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

When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there.. whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.

But Ill tell you a secret. You know what boys like? A woman whos happy with herself. Whos not making herself miserable with the Jane Fonda videotapes and complaining all the time about whether this part or that ones too big. And you know what else they like? She leaned in close, whispering into her granddaughters ear. Good food.

Have you ever considered that there might be something wrong with your brain?Oh, I think there might be something wrong with everyone else’s.

Divorce isnt such a tragedy. A tragedys staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she wasn’t the kind of person Jim could fall in love with. She wasn’t what she’d made herself out to be — a cheerful, uncomplicated girl, a normal girl with a happy, orderly life, a girl who wore pretty shoes and had nothing more pressing on her mind that whether ER was a rerun this week. The truth was in the exercise tape she didn’t have time to unwrap, let alone exercise to; the truth was her hairy legs and ugly underwear. Most of all, the truth was her sister, her gorgeous, messed-up, fantastically unhappy and astoundingly irresponsible sister.

I dont answer. I shut my eyes and hold my breath and hope whoever it is will think Im not here and go home.

Your friends will still be your friends, if theyre good friends.

Im saying that its a big decision. Your first love is important. Its part of your story The story youll tell yourself, the one youll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.

Sometimes I wish it has been you.

First of all, its life. You dont win.

It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.

Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if youre a poor woman and you are infertile, its like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.