At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.


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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
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
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
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