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I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

~Jennifer Weiner

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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.

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My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

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Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

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People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'

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I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

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

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Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'

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I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 28th, 1970

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