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You've never been in love, she said. You don't understand. If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities, Caitlin said, Then I haven't missed anything.
Judy Blume
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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
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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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I think we made out [sexuality changing]. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.
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The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
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It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.
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Summer Sisters is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't like sudden loud noises. They scare me. And then all these people came running down the hill and jumped in the water in their finery and a bride and groom was with them, and that's where it all started.
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It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.
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I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
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I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were This is America, we don't do this here but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes I can.
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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
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I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.
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[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
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We must, we must, we must increase our bust.
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I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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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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I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.
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My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.
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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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I never read the Bobbsey Twins or Boxcar Children.But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.
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