Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive… it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

About Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner (born March 28, 1970) is an American writer, television producer, and journalist. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her debut novel, published in 2001, was Good in Bed. Her novel In Her Shoes (2002) was made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine.

More quotations from Jennifer Weiner

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

—Jennifer Weiner in Good in Bed

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love.

—Jennifer Weiner in Fly Away Home

History

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26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

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Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive…it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.