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!

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

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

I wished that my job was baking muffins in a muffin shop, where all I'd have to do was crack eggs and measure flour and make change, and nobody could abuse me, and where they'd even expect me to be fat. Every flab roll and cellulite crinkle would serve as testimony to the excellence of my baked goods

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

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.

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