Quotes from Judy Blume

I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.

If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?

Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read.

The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey.

I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be.

I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen.

I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen.

I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well.

Telling kids the truth isn't always entirely possible, but talking to them is.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

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?

Some changes happen deep inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them.