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There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.
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When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there... whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.
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Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?
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The truth, as any woman can tell you, is that there's no place, no profession, nowhere that a woman's looks don't matter.
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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.
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I decided... that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.
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You don't get perfect — but I was going to grab this happiness and hold it as tightly as I could. I was going to enjoy it for as long as it lasted.
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People don't like to see things that aren't perfect. It reminds them of what could go wrong in their own lives, I guess.
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This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.
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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
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Something that's bigger than you, and something that's kind and forgiving, I'd heard one of the meeting leaders say. That's all your Higher Power has to be.
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You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.
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Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You learn.
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If you're looking for a New Year's slogan, here's another one to try — in 2016, let's look beyond the superficial and all resolve to make more of ourselves, not less.
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They say — "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld — that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.
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Well, you can't control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they're doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you'll let it affect you
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Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate, back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.
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The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard.... Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.
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Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive... is the thing that makes you better than you used to be.
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Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.
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Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.
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Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.
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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.
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Admitting you had a problem was the first step — everyone knew that — but admitting you had a problem also left you open to the possibility that maybe you couldn't fix it.
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She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold or scared, someone will come and care for me - and how that absence could warp you so that you'd lash out at the people you loved, driving them away when all you wanted to do was pull them closer.
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Jennifer Weiner
Born:
March 28, 1970
(age 54)
Bio:
Jennifer Weiner is an American writer, television producer, and former journalist. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her debut novel, published in 2001, was Good in Bed.
Known for:
Good in Bed (2001)
All Fall Down (2014)
Then Came You (2011)
Who Do You Love: A Novel (2015)
The Next Best Thing (2012)
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