Top 40 Wendy Wax Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “She waited for one of them to say something that might facilitate a more in-depth conversation, something that might bridge the distance between them; but neither man spoke.”

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2. “And remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. Only she did it backwards and in heels.”

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3. “The hangers that held his hanging clothes had been aligned in the same direction. All of it had been arranged by color.”

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4. “I’ve been pinching our pennies so tightly that Abraham Lincoln’s face is imprinted on my fingers.”

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5. “Never let them see you sweat. Nicole Grant, former dating guru and A-list matchmaker, knew it was a bad sign when the philosophy you were living by came from a deodorant commercial.”

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6. “A summer full of cheap food, folding chairs, and home-cooked meals. Those good times were so going to roll.”

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7. “We’re professional liars, aren’t we? It’s our job to keep the story interesting.”

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8. “I got my first driver’s license in Michigan when I turned twelve.”

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9. “She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

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10. “Men and women of God are full of strength and wisdom; they are full of can-do power. There is nothing in your future, your life, that you cannot accomplish.”

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11. “Like Pig-Pen from the Charlie Brown comic strip, her cloud hovered over her, dark and daunting and devoid of a silver lining.”

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12. “The discomfort she felt with Avery Lawford was nothing compared to what she felt when their third partner arrived a few moments later in a classic green Jaguar convertible, from which she emerged like a celebrity being handed onto the red carpet.”

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13. “Working with your ex-husband was almost as much fun as a double root canal. Without anesthesia. Doing it in front of television cameras was four impacted wisdom teeth thrown in.”

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14. “They prided themselves on being honest with each other, but they were women. Sometimes they put protecting feelings above the truth. Or looking self-sufficient above asking for help.”

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15. “We honeymooned on the SS Franklin,” Max said. “We were the onboard entertainment even though it was Millie’s first time onstage. When I saw this house for sale a couple years later, I knew we had to have it.” “It reminds me of the Titanic,” Nicole said under her breath. “Post-iceberg. Assuming it had mowed down a flock of flamingos first.”

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16. “There’d been so many things she’d thought she’d known when in fact she’d barely understood the smallest thing.”

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17. “If Steve didn’t have a job, where did he go every day after he put on his suit and strolled out the door with his briefcase? More important, why hadn’t he told her?”

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18. “There isn’t a lot a mother won’t do for her child, Kyra. It’s sort of hardwired into our DNA.”

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19. “Do you think there’s really a job where all you do is count the number of threads in a sheet? It sounds a whole lot easier than the Laundromat and the diner.”

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20. “Madeline Singer had recently achieved two things that surprised her: a senior citizen discount; and the legal right to date.”

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21. “The problem began with her height, which was too short to command respect, and was compounded by china-doll features, an oversize bust, and the kind of blue-eyed blondness that caused complete strangers to deduct IQ points and to speak to her slowly. Using really small words.”

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22. “The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. – W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM.”

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23. “She wrote for years, one book after another, just trying to get somewhere. At one point, despite all the roadblocks her publisher put in her way, she hit the New York Times list and got a multimillion dollar contract with another publisher.”

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24. “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. – W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM.”

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25. “Getting older is definitely not for sissies.” But then neither, it seemed, was marriage.”

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26. “Like Andy Rooney and Judy Garland screaming “Let’s put on a play!” the.”

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27. “He was still telling himself to calm down, patting his pockets for a Tootsie Pop – something he hadn’t done all week – when he went into the closet and found Goldilocks surrounded by piles of his clothes and possessions, each pile organized and labeled with handwritten descriptions.”

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28. “It was only later that she would remember that the truth did not always set you free. And that you had to be careful what you wished for, because you might actually get it.”

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29. “When you can sit down and produce a four-hundred-page manuscript that can transport a reader somewhere else for a spell, maybe I’ll allow you to criticize.”

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30. “Steve doesn’t work here anymore.” Madeline sat in the cul-de-sac, trying to absorb the words she’d just heard. “I haven’t seen Steve since he was laid off. That was at the beginning of September. About six months ago.”

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31. “The last time you gave me ‘Hightower detail’ he caught me with his underwear in my hands.” “I’m sorry I missed that.” Nicole’s voice rang with suppressed laughter. “We’re all sorry we missed that,” Deirdre added. “I can’t tell you how much I wish I’d missed that,” Maddie said drily.”

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32. “Somehow she’d clabbered together a series of student loans to get her undergraduate degree at Boston College. Her graduation gift to herself was a new name and a new city.”

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33. “Either way would give her a shot at covering their most pressing expenses until Malcolm Dyer was found and the remainder of their money returned. “Please, God,” she thought as she dialed the first number. “Please let them catch him soon. And please don’t make these women too difficult to deal with.”

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34. “What defines us isn’t how we behave when things are good, Andrew, but how we respond when they aren’t.”

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35. “She’d heard once that shaping your lips into a smile whether you meant it or not made your words sound happier.”

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36. “Dottie, spray her hair some more so that it can’t fall forward. It’s hiding her, um, profile.” This was Jonathan the director’s euphemism for cleavage, which always seemed to get more close-ups than the rest of her.”

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37. “At forty-five not even expensive highlights and a boatload of Lycra could disguise the fact that her body had given up its struggle against gravity.”

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38. “They looked at each other. “I don’t understand it. But I know who sent it.” Maddie Singer’s thumbs and her iPhone were often incompatible. She claimed she’d been a lot more comfortable with her smartphone before it got so smart.”

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39. “Emma just smiled sleepily, only opening.”

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40. “I raise my glass. We toast like the bookworms we are. “To the end of a chapter.” “To Turning the page,” Dorothy adds. “And Starting a new one.”

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