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Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Bad
#Money
#Poor
#Sad
#Woman
Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Celebrate
#Club
#Day
#Deserve
#Way
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Believe
#Day
#Face
#Persistence
#Work
Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Character
#People
#Process
#Room
#Voice
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Fiction
#Horror
#Men
#Notice
#Read
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Family
#Literature
#Man
#Serious
#Woman
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
- Jennifer Weiner
#About
#Angry
#Being
#Daughter
#Hang
I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Princeton
#Studies
#Women
I'm not in charge of my life.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Charge
#Life
#My Life
I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Always
#Days
#Economics
#Money
#Want
Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Again
#Day
#Fiction
#Job
#Private
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
- Jennifer Weiner
#College
#Newspaper
#Reporter
#Writing
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Funny
#Hope
#Life
#Men
#Women
There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Audience
#Live
#Never
#Nice
#Watching
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Less
#Money
#People
#Potential
#Power
I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.
- Jennifer Weiner
#Enough
#Famous
#Hair
#Makeup
#Person
#Well
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