Jennifer Weiner - People Quotes

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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.

Jennifer Weiner
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.

Jennifer Weiner
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.

Jennifer Weiner
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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Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

Jennifer Weiner
People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world.... But you have to do what's right for you.

Jennifer Weiner
I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

Jennifer Weiner
I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.

Jennifer Weiner
I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do — because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicycle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not — will not — break.

Jennifer Weiner
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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