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Author: Jennifer Weiner
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Jennifer Weiner _ Mrs. Everything
Girls today, Judy Pressman had told her. They act like they're the first ones to have done any of this. They've got to reinvent the wheel, and make everything ten times harder than it has to be.
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Jennifer Weiner _ Good in Bed
This wasn't the life she signed up for.
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Jennifer Weiner _ Mrs. Everything
First of all, it's got a million calories.
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Jennifer Weiner _ Mrs. Everything
She hoped that things had changed, but she knew that they hadn't changed enough. All the demonstrations, all the consciousness-raising, all the protests, all the pickets, all the books she'd read, all the conversations she'd had, all the ballots she'd cast, all the work and here they were, still.
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Jennifer Weiner _ Mrs. Everything
Bubbe and Zayde were old and small and wrinkly,
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Jennifer Weiner _ Mrs. Everything
She'd lost her taste for fiction. Sometimes she thought it was because spending even a few hours in an imaginary world would make it too tempting for her to consider other versions of her own story, other ways it could have unfolded. A different ending, a true happily-ever-after.
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Jennifer Weiner _ Mrs. Everything
On the best days, there'd be a new package of margarine, and Bethie would be allowed to break the capsule of yellow dye and squish it all around until all the margarine was yellow-colored.
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Jennifer Weiner _ Mrs. Everything
Misses everything," Lila said, and gave the faintest smile. "It's like a joke. Like, there should be a Mister Everything somewhere.
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Jennifer Weiner _ Mrs. Everything
The first time around, she'd done the surgeries, the radiation, the chemotherapy. She'd lost her hair, lost her appetite and her energy, lost her left breast and six months of her life.
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Jennifer Weiner _ Mrs. Everything
a white headband in her curled and sprayed hair.
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Jennifer Weiner _ Mrs. Everything
You make the wrong choices, you make mistakes, you disappear for a decade, you marry the wrong man. You get hurt. You lose sight of who you are, or of who you want to be, and then you remember, and if you're lucky you have sisters or friends who remind you when you forget your best intentions. You come back to yourself, again and again. You try, and fail, and try again, and fail again.
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Jennifer Weiner _ Mrs. Everything
She wished she'd spent more time teaching her girls that women should forgive themselves, showing them how to take care of themselves with kindness. The world was hard enough, would beat them up enough without them adding to the pain.
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