People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
From Jennifer Weiner
My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
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