American - Author | February 12, 1938 -
My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen.
Judy Blume
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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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My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.'
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Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.
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My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read!
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You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and daydream.
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It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.
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Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.
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I was wildly interested in puberty as a child.
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I don't have anything new to say about teenagers.
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I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.
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When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.
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