Meg Wolitzer: "The child who was happy with herself meant..."

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 is a co-director of the BookEnds writing fellowship 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

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

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

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!

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

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