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Top 90 Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quotes (2026 Update)
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Whatever kind of woman you are, even when you’re a lot of kinds of women, you’re still always just a woman, which is to say you’re always a little bit less than a man.”

51. “Whatever kind of woman you are, even when you’re a lot of kinds of women, you’re still always just a woman, which is to say you’re always a little bit less than a man.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “One day he would not be recently divorced, but he would never forget those questions, the way people pretended to care for him while they were really asking after themselves.”

52. “One day he would not be recently divorced, but he would never forget those questions, the way people pretended to care for him while they were really asking after themselves.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “That was why you heard about people in their thirties and forties going to law school but never medical school. It wasn’t just the time it would take to get licensed. It was the realization as you got older about how fallible you were in every aspect of your life.”

53. “That was why you heard about people in their thirties and forties going to law school but never medical school. It wasn’t just the time it would take to get licensed. It was the realization as you got older about how fallible you were in every aspect of your life.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “She filed all the ways she was put off under an enormous label called Weren’t You Listening? When she was annoyed and she spoke with him, her face reminded him of the faces of people he’d seen die: The animating force taken away from them, they looked like completely different people. It terrified him.”

54. “She filed all the ways she was put off under an enormous label called Weren’t You Listening? When she was annoyed and she spoke with him, her face reminded him of the faces of people he’d seen die: The animating force taken away from them, they looked like completely different people. It terrified him.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “I was still living on Carmine Street when I fell in love with my first editor, Glenn, back at the first magazine I worked at out of college, TV Tonight. Glenn was married, with three children. He wasn’t the most handsome guy in our office, but he was the one who telegraphed a kind of stability that I was boring enough to find sexy.”

55. “I was still living on Carmine Street when I fell in love with my first editor, Glenn, back at the first magazine I worked at out of college, TV Tonight. Glenn was married, with three children. He wasn’t the most handsome guy in our office, but he was the one who telegraphed a kind of stability that I was boring enough to find sexy.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “What was so much better than stability and the love of a good person who rooted for you? We fall in love and we decide to marry in this one incredible moment, and what if everything that happens after that is about trying to remember that moment?”

56. “What was so much better than stability and the love of a good person who rooted for you? We fall in love and we decide to marry in this one incredible moment, and what if everything that happens after that is about trying to remember that moment?”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “He looked across the room to her at that party, and she looked back at him and smiled. So much time had passed since then and yet that was Rachel for him. He had spent so many years in the service of trying to relocate that Rachel within the Rachel that she kept proving herself to be. But even now it was that version of Rachel that was the first that ever came to mind when he thought of her. He felt he would be doing worlds better if it weren’t.”

57. “He looked across the room to her at that party, and she looked back at him and smiled. So much time had passed since then and yet that was Rachel for him. He had spent so many years in the service of trying to relocate that Rachel within the Rachel that she kept proving herself to be. But even now it was that version of Rachel that was the first that ever came to mind when he thought of her. He felt he would be doing worlds better if it weren’t.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Toby had heard from other doctors who worked with a poorer clientele that less fortunate people are more accepting of these things. Not the rich ones. Rich patients couldn’t believe that money couldn’t help, that their positions and club memberships and status couldn’t help. They couldn’t believe that nobody was coming to save them. But nobody was coming to save them.”

58. “Toby had heard from other doctors who worked with a poorer clientele that less fortunate people are more accepting of these things. Not the rich ones. Rich patients couldn’t believe that money couldn’t help, that their positions and club memberships and status couldn’t help. They couldn’t believe that nobody was coming to save them. But nobody was coming to save them.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “She spat the lo mein back into the carton. It was disgusting. Why would you eat spaghetti from a Chinese place?”

59. “She spat the lo mein back into the carton. It was disgusting. Why would you eat spaghetti from a Chinese place?”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “There has never been, in the history of all human interaction, a way for a woman to explain effectively that she’s calm when a man has suggested she isn’t.”

60. “There has never been, in the history of all human interaction, a way for a woman to explain effectively that she’s calm when a man has suggested she isn’t.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Weekends were endless. If you needed to know the most disparate thing about Adam and me it was that he loved them and I did not. I liked order and routine. Weekends were an abyss that was exactly long enough to stare back at me.”

61. “Weekends were endless. If you needed to know the most disparate thing about Adam and me it was that he loved them and I did not. I liked order and routine. Weekends were an abyss that was exactly long enough to stare back at me.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “He had a slightly lazy eye, which would stray only when he’d been staring at you for a long time, as if the eye were done with the conversation and was hinting at the rest of him that it was time to go.”

62. “He had a slightly lazy eye, which would stray only when he’d been staring at you for a long time, as if the eye were done with the conversation and was hinting at the rest of him that it was time to go.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Toby walked the kids through the hot night over to Seventy-ninth and Park, where Cyndi and Todd Leffer lived. On the way, with Hannah still ignoring him, he listened to Solly make a case for watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom again, and they passed a building where he had a clear memory of getting blown by a woman in a stairwell just three weeks ago.”

63. “Toby walked the kids through the hot night over to Seventy-ninth and Park, where Cyndi and Todd Leffer lived. On the way, with Hannah still ignoring him, he listened to Solly make a case for watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom again, and they passed a building where he had a clear memory of getting blown by a woman in a stairwell just three weeks ago.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “TRULY, NONE OF us could have predicted that this was how it would end up for Toby. We were twenty when we met on our junior years abroad in Israel.”

64. “TRULY, NONE OF us could have predicted that this was how it would end up for Toby. We were twenty when we met on our junior years abroad in Israel.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Now that I stay at home, I can say it out loud. But now that I don’t work, no one is listening. No one listens to stay-at-home mothers, which, I guess, is why we were so careful about their feelings in the first place.”

65. “Now that I stay at home, I can say it out loud. But now that I don’t work, no one is listening. No one listens to stay-at-home mothers, which, I guess, is why we were so careful about their feelings in the first place.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Toby had been told all his life that being in love means never having to say you’re sorry. But no, it was actually being divorced that meant never having to say you’re sorry.”

66. “Toby had been told all his life that being in love means never having to say you’re sorry. But no, it was actually being divorced that meant never having to say you’re sorry.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Our defenses were the same: sarcasm, pettiness, a protective well-readness that we hoped conveyed that we were smarter than everyone. I liked him. I could have even like-liked him.”

67. “Our defenses were the same: sarcasm, pettiness, a protective well-readness that we hoped conveyed that we were smarter than everyone. I liked him. I could have even like-liked him.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “There is no post. There’s only trauma.”

68. “There is no post. There’s only trauma.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “I made lunch. I made dinner. I made breakfast. I made lunch. I made dinner. I made breakfast. I made lunch. I made dinner.”

69. “I made lunch. I made dinner. I made breakfast. I made lunch. I made dinner. I made breakfast. I made lunch. I made dinner.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “He understood divorce in a macro way, of course. But he had not yet adjusted to it in a micro way, in the other-side-of-the-bed-being-empty way, in the nobody-to-tell-you-were-running-late way, in the you-belong-to-no-one way.”

70. “He understood divorce in a macro way, of course. But he had not yet adjusted to it in a micro way, in the other-side-of-the-bed-being-empty way, in the nobody-to-tell-you-were-running-late way, in the you-belong-to-no-one way.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Miriam had only heard of gender imbalance; how could she have experienced it? She didn’t work.”

71. “Miriam had only heard of gender imbalance; how could she have experienced it? She didn’t work.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “My voice only came alive then I was talking about someone else; my ability to see the truth and to extrapolate human emotion based on what I saw and was told didn’t extend to myself.”

72. “My voice only came alive then I was talking about someone else; my ability to see the truth and to extrapolate human emotion based on what I saw and was told didn’t extend to myself.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “She never once thought she deserved happiness. She never once wondered if there was something better out there. This was their marriage; this was their family. It was theirs, they owned it, they made it. If there was one thing she’d learned from her grandmother, it was an understanding that life isn’t always what you want it to be, and obligations are obligations and nothing less.”

73. “She never once thought she deserved happiness. She never once wondered if there was something better out there. This was their marriage; this was their family. It was theirs, they owned it, they made it. If there was one thing she’d learned from her grandmother, it was an understanding that life isn’t always what you want it to be, and obligations are obligations and nothing less.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “I leaned against his shoulder, which required a full coccyx-to-neck side curl, since his shoulder reached considerably below any part of my head, and so that I had to bend my torso-neck-head into the shape of a C.”

74. “I leaned against his shoulder, which required a full coccyx-to-neck side curl, since his shoulder reached considerably below any part of my head, and so that I had to bend my torso-neck-head into the shape of a C.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “That first night, on the phone, Toby was so grateful that I wasn’t going to make him pay for his abandonment of me or treat him like an injured kitten that he became giddy, and he laughed more and so I laughed more. And in our laughter we heard our youth, and it is not not a dangerous thing to be at the doorstep to middle age and at an impasse in your life and to suddenly be hearing sounds from your youth.”

75. “That first night, on the phone, Toby was so grateful that I wasn’t going to make him pay for his abandonment of me or treat him like an injured kitten that he became giddy, and he laughed more and so I laughed more. And in our laughter we heard our youth, and it is not not a dangerous thing to be at the doorstep to middle age and at an impasse in your life and to suddenly be hearing sounds from your youth.”

— Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “When she put her money toward feminist causes, she was actually just addressing rumors she’d heard of a patriarchy.”

76. “When she put her money toward feminist causes, she was actually just addressing rumors she’d heard of a patriarchy.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “He would love a dinner party full of crazy people. But he didn’t want a life with a crazy person.”

77. “He would love a dinner party full of crazy people. But he didn’t want a life with a crazy person.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Our fourth lunch: “It’s like group therapy,” he said, eating a scoop of cottage cheese, and talking about all these new people he’d dated, so many of whom had been through the same thing.”

78. “Our fourth lunch: “It’s like group therapy,” he said, eating a scoop of cottage cheese, and talking about all these new people he’d dated, so many of whom had been through the same thing.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “It was a scandal, calling out women for changing the rules on men with no warning because of their vapid women’s lib and their stupid sexual awakenings. Sexual awakenings were not supposed to extend beyond what was merely an upgrade in enjoyment for men.”

79. “It was a scandal, calling out women for changing the rules on men with no warning because of their vapid women’s lib and their stupid sexual awakenings. Sexual awakenings were not supposed to extend beyond what was merely an upgrade in enjoyment for men.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “She was not at the gym, or coming back from the gym in a less black mood than usual, not by much but a little.”

80. “She was not at the gym, or coming back from the gym in a less black mood than usual, not by much but a little.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “The only thing more offensive than Miriam not working was Miriam thinking she did work.”

81. “The only thing more offensive than Miriam not working was Miriam thinking she did work.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “But also, divorce is about forgetfulness – a decision to stop remembering the moment before all the chaos – the moment they fell in love, the moment they knew they were more special together than apart. Marriages live in service to the memory of those moments. Their marriage would not forgive them for getting older, and they would not forgive their marriage for witnessing it.”

82. “But also, divorce is about forgetfulness – a decision to stop remembering the moment before all the chaos – the moment they fell in love, the moment they knew they were more special together than apart. Marriages live in service to the memory of those moments. Their marriage would not forgive them for getting older, and they would not forgive their marriage for witnessing it.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “His misery was a fog that obscured slightly but not completely an entirely new land of opportunity. He did not realize that the land of opportunity was obscuring something even more potent.”

83. “His misery was a fog that obscured slightly but not completely an entirely new land of opportunity. He did not realize that the land of opportunity was obscuring something even more potent.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “The girls in her class had first names like Clancy and Devon and Atterleigh and Westerleigh and Bonneleigh and Plum and Poppy and Catherine. And Catherine and Catherine and Catherine and Catherine.”

84. “The girls in her class had first names like Clancy and Devon and Atterleigh and Westerleigh and Bonneleigh and Plum and Poppy and Catherine. And Catherine and Catherine and Catherine and Catherine.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “How miserable is too miserable?”

85. “How miserable is too miserable?”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Once, she woke him up in the middle of the night after she came home from some event, and began poking around in the blanket for his boxers like she was looking for batteries in the junk drawer, and when she saw nothing was going on down there, she said, “I guess this is it, then.” He had no idea what she meant. She began crying and screaming at him, telling him how miserable she was.”

86. “Once, she woke him up in the middle of the night after she came home from some event, and began poking around in the blanket for his boxers like she was looking for batteries in the junk drawer, and when she saw nothing was going on down there, she said, “I guess this is it, then.” He had no idea what she meant. She began crying and screaming at him, telling him how miserable she was.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Our fifth lunch: “It couldn’t be me,” he said as he ate four turkey slices with mustard and no bread. “There are too many of us who want the best for our children and our spouses. Sometimes you end up married to someone who didn’t realize she didn’t want to be married. I mean, look at this.” He swiped up a photo. A perfectly lovely woman with dimples, wearing a bathing suit and squinting in the sun.”

87. “Our fifth lunch: “It couldn’t be me,” he said as he ate four turkey slices with mustard and no bread. “There are too many of us who want the best for our children and our spouses. Sometimes you end up married to someone who didn’t realize she didn’t want to be married. I mean, look at this.” He swiped up a photo. A perfectly lovely woman with dimples, wearing a bathing suit and squinting in the sun.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “She was becoming, it seemed to him, the kind of girl that it was completely exhausting to be.”

88. “She was becoming, it seemed to him, the kind of girl that it was completely exhausting to be.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “He didn’t want to be set up with people. He didn’t want to know what his friends thought he was worthy of. All of this was still so new that the only thing he could tolerate was the ice-cold democracy of a dating app.”

89. “He didn’t want to be set up with people. He didn’t want to know what his friends thought he was worthy of. All of this was still so new that the only thing he could tolerate was the ice-cold democracy of a dating app.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “It was dark on the second day when it occurred to him that he had to take action on some of these conversations. He realized it because a woman he was messaging with wrote, So will I see that cute face anytime soon or not?”

90. “It was dark on the second day when it occurred to him that he had to take action on some of these conversations. He realized it because a woman he was messaging with wrote, So will I see that cute face anytime soon or not?”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Hannah snarled at him that he’d chosen the wrong outfit, that the leggings were for tomorrow, and so he held up her tiny red shorts and she swiped them out of his hands with the disgust of a person who was not committed to any consideration of scale when it came to emotional display.”

91. “Hannah snarled at him that he’d chosen the wrong outfit, that the leggings were for tomorrow, and so he held up her tiny red shorts and she swiped them out of his hands with the disgust of a person who was not committed to any consideration of scale when it came to emotional display.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Like every other woman in the world who has ever been told to calm down, Rachel had no idea how to behave.”

92. “Like every other woman in the world who has ever been told to calm down, Rachel had no idea how to behave.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “This was only one of the awful parts of being pregnant. Right before you were pregnant, you were a person. The minute you became an incubator for another life, you got reduced to your parts.”

93. “This was only one of the awful parts of being pregnant. Right before you were pregnant, you were a person. The minute you became an incubator for another life, you got reduced to your parts.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “There was not a number at which anyone said, “I have a good life. I’d like to see if I can help someone else have a good life.” These were criminals – yes, most of them were real, live criminals. Not always with jailable offenses, but certainly morally abhorrent ones: They had offshore accounts or they underpaid their assistants or they didn’t pay taxes on their housekeepers or they were NRA members.”

94. “There was not a number at which anyone said, “I have a good life. I’d like to see if I can help someone else have a good life.” These were criminals – yes, most of them were real, live criminals. Not always with jailable offenses, but certainly morally abhorrent ones: They had offshore accounts or they underpaid their assistants or they didn’t pay taxes on their housekeepers or they were NRA members.”

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner Quote: “Her youth was so staggering it was offensive.”

95. “Her youth was so staggering it was offensive.”

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