Goodreads asked Jennifer Weiner:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Jennifer Weiner I'd go to the world of "Little Women." Specifically, I would go to the scene where Professor Bhaer was telling Jo her "sensation stories" were dangerous trash. I'd tell her, "This is the patriarchy talking," and urge her to think hard about who profits from the diminishment of women's work. And if he kept talking I'd say, "Oh, you think you can judge her writing? Let's see you try to write something!" And while he was bent over his ink-blotted page, learning that easy reading = hard writing, I'd take Jo out for tea and tell her that he'd do fine as a rebound guy, but that marrying him would be a big mistake and that if she did she would spend the sequel running a school for boys, which, no. Just no.

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