Jennifer Weiner Mother Quotations

I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

The way I see it,” she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.” She said “you kids” in precisely the same tone I would have used for “you infestation of cockroaches

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

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.