Judy Blume Quotes
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you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain
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We weren't doing blow jobs when I was growing up.
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I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.
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Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.
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Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face
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Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.
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I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
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Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
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But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?
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I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
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I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.
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I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."
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Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
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Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
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I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.
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Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?
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"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.