Jenny Colgan quote: "She is resisting the Internet idea...because she doesn't want to one day tell her children that she posted an ad on the Internet, interviewed twenty-five hopeful candidates, and finally their father turned up and looked good in comparison with the rest of them. It just doesn't seem right."

Dear ignoramuses,

Halloween is not 'a yankee holiday' celebrated only by gigantic toddler...
JENNY COLGAN

Turkish Delight

Turkish delight has had a bad reputation since that man C.S.Lewis - a pos...
JENNY COLGAN

The bulk of the growth in coastal areas came about as a result of a wealthier society that has a ver...
CHARLES COLGAN

I really feel bad for all of the volunteers who have worked for the past year to get all phases of t...
CHARLES COLGAN

It's a great example of how the economy adapts to find ways to use resources that are not being used...
CHARLES COLGAN

We're really in uncharted territory here.
CHARLES COLGAN

The conditions were just too bad for the other array of planes to fly in as we had planned.
CHARLES COLGAN

The jobless recovery in Maine is much more of a reality than we thought it was.
CHARLES COLGAN

We will still have activities going on and we still want people to come out.
CHARLES COLGAN

There has been job growth. But it's not where we would like to see it.
CHARLES COLGAN

The discussion about the shipyard's really critical role in that area will highlight a lot of other ...
CHARLES COLGAN

While there are a lot of people who are going to be selling or thinking about getting out, housing d...
CHARLES COLGAN

You don't have to be in the brightest, shiniest state of being an individual to feel like you...
JENNY SLATE

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH

I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and...
JENNY SLATE

I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' pos...
JENNY LEWIS

There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is b...
JENNY ECLAIR

I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a way t...
JENNY OFFILL

I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records ...
JENNY LEWIS

My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!
JENNY ECLAIR

I don't think that crazy should have a negative connotation - it just means that you're fun....
JENNY MOLLEN

When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did ...
JENNY SLATE

But what now? What am I supposed to do with all these feelings?
JENNY HAN

It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.
JENNY HAN

Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you so...
JENNY VALENTINE

Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just ...
JENNY HAN

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he f...
JENNY WEBER

I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you t...
JENNY DOWNHAM

Rage can be so common it turns ambient.
JENNY ZHANG

Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family pl...
JENNY SHIPLEY

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
JENNY SHIPLEY

You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexis...
JENNY SLATE

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt tha...
JENNY AGUTTER

I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I&#...
JENNY LEWIS

I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it w...
JENNY LAWSON

I don't believe in fad diets.
JENNY CRAIG

I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat fo...
JENNY ECLAIR

I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.
JENNY ECLAIR

I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat ...
JENNY MCCARTHY

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international...
JENNY SHIPLEY

Back at high school, there was this quarterback who asks me out. He's never paid attention to me...
JENNY SLATE

When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw ...
JENNY LEWIS

I still catch myself trying to become the object someone imagines me to be, but then there are other...
JENNY ZHANG

When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn...
JENNY LAWSON

I feel I have to be totally cemented in my position, all: 'You can't tell me what to do with...
JENNY SLATE

Lack of charisma can be fatal.
JENNY HOLZER

I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.
JENNY LEWIS

People come in and out of your life. For a time they're your world; they are everything. There's no ...
JENNY HAN

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant eve...
JENNY HAN

Everything is going to be fine.”

I hate it when people say that, people who have absolu...
JENNY VALENTINE

I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it s...
JENNY TROUT

Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit.
JENNY SLATE

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewher...
JENNY SLATE

At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and...
JENNY MCCARTHY

It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to g...
JENNY MCCARTHY

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
JENNY MCCARTHY

I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for gra...
JENNY ZHANG

Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongu...
JENNY ZHANG

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the mo...
JENNY HOLZER

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than f...
JENNY ZHANG

Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of a...
JENNY ZHANG

Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psy...
JENNY ZHANG

When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainl...
JENNY SHIPLEY

The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think the...
JENNY ZHANG

Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisa...
JENNY SHIPLEY

If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to ...
JENNY ZHANG

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I...
JENNY HOLZER

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
JENNY CRAIG

Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food q...
JENNY SHIPLEY

Wait!" he yelled.
I didn't turn around, I walked faster. Then I heard him slam his fist on the ...
JENNY HAN

When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel a...
JENNY LAWSON

I’ve fallen for the one person I shouldn’t have. For the boy who broke Mary’s heart. For Renni...
JENNY HAN

I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him en...
JENNY HAN

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, ...
JENNY TROUT

I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.
JENNY TROUT

That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the a...
JENNY HAN

The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are...
JENNY MCCARTHY

Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of pa...
JENNY MCCARTHY

When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both cov...
JENNY ZHANG

I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, ...
JENNY SLATE

Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dab...
JENNY ZHANG

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside locke...
JENNY MCCARTHY

My favourite food is cake.
What kind of cake?
It doesn't matter. All cake.
JENNY HAN

Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls.
JENNY ECLAIR

Sometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what...
JENNY HAN

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly c...
JENNY HOLZER

i worried he'd let go, but he didn't. We held hands like this the whole rest of the way home.
JENNY HAN

When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficu...
JENNY DOWNHAM

I couldn't wait to be an adult woman, and I'm glad I felt that way as a kid because, when I ...
JENNY SLATE

There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It hel...
JENNY NIMMO

I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how d...
JENNY OFFILL

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. Th...
JENNY LEWIS

I'm constantly dodging people in L.A. There are some people I don't ever wanna see again, bu...
JENNY LEWIS

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric pat...
JENNY HOLZER

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair...
JENNY ECLAIR

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things ...
JENNY AGUTTER

The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same ki...
JENNY AGUTTER

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member...
JENNY NIMMO

Why did my mother, a grown woman, get to talk like all her hopes and dreams had been shat on, kicked...
JENNY ZHANG

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still ...
JENNY LAWSON

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I ma...
JENNY LEWIS

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.
JENNY SLATE

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, ...
JENNY MCCARTHY

I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in...
JENNY LEWIS

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
JENNY HOLZER

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.'
'No.'
'It might be important.'
'It might make her...
JENNY DOWNHAM

It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous o...
JENNY DOWNHAM

It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.'
'Why are you saying that?'
JENNY DOWNHAM

The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really specia...
JENNY BICKS

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I h...
JENNY HOLZER

I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.
JENNY SLATE

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started fing...
JENNY HOLZER

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't unti...
JENNY ECLAIR

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ...
JENNY LEWIS

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just f...
JENNY MCCARTHY

What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society an...
JENNY MCCARTHY

The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, w...
JENNY SHIPLEY

I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I...
JENNY LEWIS

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness th...
JENNY ZHANG

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
JENNY SHIPLEY

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really ...
JENNY LAWSON

If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably...
JENNY LAWSON

A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' ...
JENNY ECLAIR

I originally recorded [the latter] for the solo record, and I wasn't really confident with the way i...
JENNY LEWIS

That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you...
JENNY SLATE

It's 2014, and the fact that anybody has to fight for the right to do what they want to do with ...
JENNY SLATE

Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.
JENNY NIMMO

But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.
JENNY HAN

In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.
JENNY LEWIS

Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accid...
JENNY ZHANG

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.
JENNY DOWNHAM

It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they wer...
JENNY DOWNHAM

I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't...
JENNY DOWNHAM

I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I cou...
JENNY DOWNHAM

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn o...
JENNY ECLAIR

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because th...
JENNY ECLAIR

I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.
JENNY SLATE

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, ...
JENNY MCCARTHY

The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for peopl...
JENNY LEWIS

When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.
JENNY HAN

I say, “In the contract we said we wouldn’t break each other’s hearts. What if we do it again?...
JENNY HAN

...When I get you back, I’m gonna put that necklace back around your neck and pin you.” He tries...
JENNY HAN

Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need...
JENNY HAN

I don’t have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn’t have to be forever.
JENNY HAN

I couldn't even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he'd always been. He'd neve...
JENNY HAN

You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.
JENNY HAN

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who com...
JENNY HAN

Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you...
JENNY HAN

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN

Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’...
JENNY DOWNHAM

It's very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that stil...
JENNY ZHANG

Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about i...
JENNY LEWIS

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be ...
JENNY SHIPLEY

Stop saying,'I cant love without him',because you have lived even before you met him.So stop being s...
JENNY PABUALAN

It looks like John Howard is putting his stamp on this front bench, that he is making all the decisi...
JENNY MACKLIN

When Senator Cochran signed on as a co-sponsor to the original bill, it was a regular occurrence —...
JENNY MANLEY

Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up ...
JENNY LEWIS

When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anyth...
JENNY LEWIS

Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you...
JENNY HAN

After Rilo Kiley broke up and a few really intense personal things happened, I completely melted dow...
JENNY LEWIS

I hope that the restaurant I go to will have buffalo chicken fingers. I hope that one day I can work...
JENNY SLATE

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of ...
JENNY OFFILL

Even the ugliest person's cellulite is more attractive than the most beautiful supermodel's lower in...
JENNY LAWSON

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are full...
JENNY SHIPLEY

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including wri...
JENNY SLATE

I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard t...
JENNY LEWIS

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to li...
JENNY LEWIS

Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that ...
JENNY SHIPLEY

Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.
JENNY CRAIG

I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.
JENNY LEWIS

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pil...
JENNY OFFILL

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles...
JENNY MCCARTHY

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.
JENNY MCCARTHY

The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in...
JENNY ZHANG

I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.
JENNY HAN

They just take turns. It think it is almost a farce when they elect a president because they very ob...
JENNY AXLEROD

She basically won the game for them; she stood on her head.
JENNY POTTER

By embracing your subconscious, you gain a different way of seeing and experiencing—an expanded pe...
JENNY DAVIDOW

There should be a concerted effort to remind people that what Libby and Rove were doing, if they are...
JENNY BACKUS

If she's caught in a circular firing squad with her own army, you let that play out a little bit.
JENNY BACKUS

Every morning, we get up and proclaim the good news: It's still too close to call!
JENNY BACKUS

They're right across the street from the Republicans, I understand. It's a small town.
JENNY BACKUS

His plan is going to needlessly risk the economic prosperity and jeopardize the future of Social Sec...
JENNY BACKUS

Roberts wants to restrict the role of government. His early writings ... have really raised question...
JENNY BACKUS

When Roberts' record on civil rights is reviewed inside the Judiciary Committee, it's going to sound...
JENNY BACKUS

I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his...
JENNY DOWNHAM

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save li...
JENNY MCCARTHY

I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in ...
JENNY LEWIS

She loves women too much. It's like a drug and she was hooked. Angelina loves danger and dabbling in...
JENNY SHIMIZU

I'm not saying she sleeps with a lot of people. But I can't imagine her just being married and being...
JENNY SHIMIZU

It seems like he comes from a different place. He wants to have kids and he wants to have a perfect ...
JENNY SHIMIZU

I tried a few times, unsuccessfully, to lose weight. It wasn't until I joined Weight Watchers that I...
JENNY MCCARTHY

I may be known as the girl who was sunbathing topless with a Prínce but Jordan is known as that thi...
JENNY FROST

Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.
JENNY HAN

Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and some...
JENNY LAWSON

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and...
JENNY LEWIS

I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in ...
JENNY ECLAIR

I’ve never gotten a love letter before. But reading these notes like this, one after the other, it...
JENNY HAN

I think the summer is going to be very glamorous.
JENNY PACKHAM

Do you know what it’s like to like someone so much you can’t stand it and know that they’ll ne...
JENNY HAN

She is resisting the Internet idea...because she doesn't want to one day tell her children that she posted an ad on the Internet, interviewed twenty-five hopeful candidates, and finally their father turned up and looked good in comparison with the rest of them. It just doesn't seem right.

Jenny Colgan

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