The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

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About Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American novelist, known for The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, The Interestings, and The Female Persuasion. She works as an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

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I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

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People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Uncoupling

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It's funny how you can go for a long time in life not needing someone, and then you meet them and you suddenly need them all the time.

—Meg Wolitzer in Belzhar

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Part of the beauty of love was that you didn't need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn't necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

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When do I stop? When I'm twenty-five? Thirty? Thirty-five? Forty? Or right this minute? Nobody tells you how long you should keep doing something before you give up forever.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

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When love is gone, there's always justice./ And when justice is gone, there's always force./ And when force is gone, there's always Mom./ Hi, Mom!

—Laurie Anderson

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I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

—Amy Tan

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You wake up one day and say, "You know what, I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready to have children.

—Ray Romano

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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

—Sammy Davis, Jr.

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The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.