Top 160 Jennifer Weiner Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.”

— Jennifer Weiner

2. “Things happen, and you can’t make them unhappen. You don’t get do-overs, you can’t roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.”

— Jennifer Weiner

3. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.”

— Jennifer Weiner

4. “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” – MEXICAN PROVERB.”

— Jennifer Weiner

5. “Tell the story that’s been growing in your heart, the characters you can’t keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.”

— Jennifer Weiner

6. “When someone tells you who they are, believe them.”

— Jennifer Weiner

7. “He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world.”

— Jennifer Weiner

8. “I’ve learned that some broken things stay broken, and I’ve learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.”

— Jennifer Weiner

9. “And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again, until one night you picked it up to read yourself to sleep and the binding collapsed, sending dozens of pages spiraling toward the floor.”

— Jennifer Weiner

10. “I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break.”

— Jennifer Weiner

11. “If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it’s hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren’t always happy ones.”

— Jennifer Weiner

12. “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

13. “I don’t trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.”

— Jennifer Weiner

14. “Savasana – corpse pose – is the hardest pose of all. You would think, ‘What could be hard about lying on the floor?’ But the truth is that we, as humans, are not wired to be still and do nothing.”

— Jennifer Weiner

15. “A man takes care of his house, and a man takes care of his tools.”

— Jennifer Weiner

16. “So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed...”

— Jennifer Weiner

17. “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

18. “You have to open yourself up to the universe’s possibilities.”

— Jennifer Weiner

19. “I’m not in charge of my life.”

— Jennifer Weiner

20. “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, or traditional, or expected of women in America. She didn’t have to get married, she didn’t have to have kids, and she didn’t have to be thin.”

— Jennifer Weiner

21. “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 push the curtain aside and end up in that other place, where everything was different and everything was wrong. That.”

— Jennifer Weiner

22. “Every mother I’ve ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.”

— Jennifer Weiner

23. “People are like that. They can only give you what they have inside. So if this Sydelle character is giving you so much trouble, it’s because she’s nothing but trouble on the inside. She’s just delivering what’s in her heart into the universe.”

— Jennifer Weiner

24. “I like blogs. they’re good times.”

— Jennifer Weiner

25. “I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.”

— Jennifer Weiner

26. “Do not postpone life until two pounds form now. Go on the trip. Wear the strapless dress. Go zip lining, or water-skiing, or swimming with the dolphins. None of us are guaranteed a future. Putting ff joy until you’re the right size could mean you’ll never experience it at all.”

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Jennifer Weiner

28. “Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.”

— Jennifer Weiner

29. “There’s all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.”

— Jennifer Weiner

30. “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

31. “I don’t particularly like being angry about stuff. I’d rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.”

— Jennifer Weiner

32. “The trick of the internet, I had learned, was not being unapologetically yourself or completely unfiltered; it was mastering the trick of appearing that way. It was spiking your posts with just the right amount of real... which meant, of course, that you were never being real at all.”

— Jennifer Weiner

33. “Hefty? I’d railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record ‘Hefty’ is a trash bag. I’m festively plump.”

— Jennifer Weiner

34. “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

35. “It was easy to make good choices when you had a web of people supporting you, not to mention money as a safety net when everyone else in your family did the right thing, went to the right college, held down a job.”

— Jennifer Weiner

36. “You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.”

— Jennifer Weiner

37. “There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.” – GRACE PALEY.”

— Jennifer Weiner

38. “But what we’re really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people.”

— Jennifer Weiner

39. “Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.”

— Jennifer Weiner

40. “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 PTA president, and she’d deliver meals to the elderly once a month. In bed, she’d be exuberant, and would take it as an endorsement when Gary sweated all over her.”

— Jennifer Weiner

41. “You have to let people be who they want,” Terry said. “Even if it’s not what you want them to be.”

— Jennifer Weiner

42. “With motherhood and marriage there was no finish line, no hour or day or year when you got to say you were through. Life just went on and on, endless and formless, with no performance evaluation, no raises or feedback or two weeks’ vacation.”

— Jennifer Weiner

43. “What fairy tale was it, Bethie wondered, where you could fly as long as you thought lovely thoughts, but as soon as you stopped you came crashing back to earth?”

— Jennifer Weiner

44. “She wished she’d spent more time teaching her girls that women should forgive themselves, showing them how to take care of themselves with kindness. The world was hard enough, would beat them up enough without them adding to the pain.”

— Jennifer Weiner

45. “Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.”

— Jennifer Weiner

46. “Still waters run deep, I’d thought. Later, I learned that silence did not necessarily guarantee depth.”

— Jennifer Weiner

47. “I didn’t trust people who forgot to eat.”

— Jennifer Weiner

48. “Kau melakukan yang terbaik yang kau bisa. Itu yang dilakukan tiap ibu.”

— Jennifer Weiner

49. “If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?”

— Jennifer Weiner

50. “I believed in newspapers’ mission, the importance of their role as a watchdog, holding the powerful accountable, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.”

— Jennifer Weiner