Judy Blume Quotes

I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids.

Judy Blume

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 12, 1938

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Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

Andy Behrman

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The withdrawal of more than half a million Russian troops and dependents from Germany since 1991 is described by historians as 'the biggest pullout ever by an army not defeated in battle.'

Stephen Kinzer

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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Sun Tzu

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If you look through the history of wearables, I was named the father of wearable computing, or the world's first cyborg. But the definition of wearable computing can be kind of fuzzy itself. Thousands of years ago, in China, people would wear an abacus around their neck - that, in one sense, was a wearable computer.

Steve Mann

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You could be the most beautiful girl, but if you're stuck up, that doesn't do it for me.

Romeo Santos

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As I feel this life growing and moving inside of me, all of a sudden everything else is not as important. There's a level of perspective that is changing.

Judy Reyes

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You can't take it on that you're responsible for somebody else's well-being, but you can be positive and bring them up.

Jonah Marais

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You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

Deb Caletti

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I turned out two pretty good-looking kids. For that I am proud.

Debbie Rowe

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I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

Deborah Eisenberg

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Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds.

Chelsea Cain

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We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

Craig Charles

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