Judy Blume Quotes
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I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas.
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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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Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.
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I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."
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I know where "Blubber" came from. It came from stories that my daughter told me when she came home from fifth grade. There was a kid in the class who was being bullied. We didn't even call it bullying then, that's what's so weird. Victimization in the classroom. The word bully was so out, was so not in use for all those years and now it's back big time.
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She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.
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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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I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
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Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
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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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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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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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Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.
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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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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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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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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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Determination and hard work are as important as talent.
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The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.