#ay

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#common #even #gay #gay marriage #going

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#always #america #democratic #despot #embrace

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#actually #belief #believe #between #books

Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#almost #became #because #day #fiction

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#also #america #books #children #entertaining

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#any #authors #bags #corner #degrees

I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#always #been #comes #days #economics

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#celebrate #celebration #club #clubs #day

Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#devotion #display #govern #independence #laws

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#books #coming #could #i #i think