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

If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.

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.

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.