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I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.

Judy Blume

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Judy Blume
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 12
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Judith Blume
Judith Sussman
Safety
Security
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Life

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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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Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
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Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.
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What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
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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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Heavy petting, that was fun! That was good. And frankly, you know I wish kids would go back to it. It's very satisfying. And it's not as scary. So many girls, you know this. I mean they are having what we call sex. Right? They're having intercourse. They don't want to, they don't get anything out of it.
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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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Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
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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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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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Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
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You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
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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.
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I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
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If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.
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My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
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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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I thought [Summer Sisters ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
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When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.
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