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The girl, Gary's girl....would keep bowls of Hershey's Kisses on the coffee table, and she'd decorate the house for all the big holidays and most of the small ones. Probably she'd be class mother, and...

Jennifer Weiner

The girl, Gary's girl....would keep bowls of Hershey's Kisses on the coffee table, and she'd decorate the house for all the big holidays and most of the small ones. Probably she'd be class mother, and...

Tags: ideal, relationships

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.

Jennifer Weiner

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.

About Author
Jennifer Weiner (born March 28, 1970) is an American writer, television producer, and journalist. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her debut novel, published in 2001, was Good in Bed. Her novel In Her Shoes (2002) was made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine.

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

Jennifer Weiner

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

Tags: safe sex, sex

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

Jennifer Weiner

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

Tags: dad

Mom with a part-time (inching

Jennifer Weiner

Mom with a part-time (inching

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

Jennifer Weiner

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

I'm saying that it's a big decision. 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.

Jennifer Weiner

I'm saying that it's a big decision. 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.

Tags: life, love, olympics, running

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 c...

Jennifer Weiner

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 c...

Tags: family relationships, sibling relationships, siblings

You don't get perfect-but I was going to grab this happiness and hold it as tightly as I could. I was going to enjoy it for as long as it lasted.

Jennifer Weiner

You don't get perfect-but I was going to grab this happiness and hold it as tightly as I could. I was going to enjoy it for as long as it lasted.

Jo thought sometimes that Bethie liked to play at being a rebel, when the truth was that her sister had a genius for conformity, for making herself the best, most stylish example of whatever version o...

Jennifer Weiner

Jo thought sometimes that Bethie liked to play at being a rebel, when the truth was that her sister had a genius for conformity, for making herself the best, most stylish example of whatever version o...

It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried...

Jennifer Weiner

It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried...

È un libro sull’amore capace di trascendere l’aspetto fisico, su come la bellezza sia un confine arbitrario e facile da superare, su come due persone possono entrare in sintonia nonostante le differen...

Jennifer Weiner

È un libro sull’amore capace di trascendere l’aspetto fisico, su come la bellezza sia un confine arbitrario e facile da superare, su come due persone possono entrare in sintonia nonostante le differen...

Tags: ruth dave, scar, writer

Jo inhaled slowly, trying to think of all the time she’d had with her granddaughters, and not everything that she’d miss.

Jennifer Weiner

Jo inhaled slowly, trying to think of all the time she’d had with her granddaughters, and not everything that she’d miss.

There was a parallel universe that ran alongside the normal world, and if you went through the wrong door, or turned left instead of right, ran up the street instead of down it, you could accidentally...

Jennifer Weiner

There was a parallel universe that ran alongside the normal world, and if you went through the wrong door, or turned left instead of right, ran up the street instead of down it, you could accidentally...

As long as people can still surprise you, it means you’re not dead.

Jennifer Weiner

As long as people can still surprise you, it means you’re not dead.

Your friends will still be your friends, if they're good friends.

Jennifer Weiner

Your friends will still be your friends, if they're good friends.

Tags: life, love, olympics, running

First of all, it's life. You don't win.

Jennifer Weiner

First of all, it's life. You don't win.

Tags: life, love, olympics, running

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 childr...

Jennifer Weiner

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 childr...

Tags: funny

A body was just a body, just a vessel for her soul, and

Jennifer Weiner

A body was just a body, just a vessel for her soul, and

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,...

Jennifer Weiner

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,...