Quotes from Judy Blume

Do you think just having a baby automatically makes you love it?' 'I'm not sure... you might have to learn to love it, like any other person.

because everyone knew you knitted argyle socks only for a boyfriend.

He even brags about his poops

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Life is a series of unlikely events, isn't it? Hers certainly is. One unlikely event after another, adding up to a rich, complicated whole. And who knows what's still to come? Lily looks out the window

Come on, who wouldn't be nervous about seeing her first love? Who wouldn't want her old boyfriend to find her attractive? If you don't want that, you don't go to high school reunions, you don't go to the thirty-fifth commemoration of the worst year of your life. Besides, she's not fifteen anymore. She's not that girl whose heart was broken on a sunny afternoon in May. She's a woman, married

If you aren't any religion, how will you know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?

And then, from the other room, we could hear Fudge singing himself to sleep. "M-a-i-n-e spells Maine. F-u-d-g-e spells Fudgie. P-e-t-e-r spells Pee-tah. B-e-e-r spells whiskey.

You're an asshole, you know that? Stick your finger up your butt and take a whiff. That's you. A piece of shit!

So I wrote I think male teachers are the opposite of female teachers. There! That ought to do it. It was a stupid answer, but I also thought it was a pretty stupid question.

She'd learned a long time ago to look ahead, not back. What's done is done. Make the best of it and move on.

I thought how great it would be if we could trade in Fudge for a nice cocker spaniel.

After drinking eight cups in a row, then walking home from school, then waiting for the elevator, then digging out my key and unlocking the door to our apartment, then dashing down the hall to the bathroom, I really had to pee. I mean, really. But Fudge was already in there, sitting on the toilet, turning the pages of Arthur the Anteater.

birthday party.

I love the way people always think they know somebody your age until you tell them how old you really are! "I'm going on twelve," I said. "Gretchen is almost twelve too," the doctor said. Well! He was right about my age.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life you had, it just goes. And mine was so rich and fun. Fortunately, I was able to tap back into that later on [through my books] to save my life.

Oh who owns the school? Oh who owns the school? Oh who owns the school? the people saaaayyyy. . . . Oh we own the school Oh we own the school 'Cause we are sixth graaaaders today!

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. My father's had an awful accident. Please help him God. He's really very kind and nice. Even though he doesn't know you the way I do, he's a good father. And he needs his hand God. So please, please let him be all right. I'll do anything you say if you help him. Thank you God.

Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places, doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Her twenty-seven books have won many awards, including the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Judy lives in Key West and New

To be ordinary was a fate worse than death.

And even more, I'm going to see to it that he's happy!

One night my father came home from the office all excited. He told us Mr. and Mrs. Yarby were coming to New York. He's the president of the Juicy-O company. He

Roses are red Violets are blue I am your brother And you are mine, too.

She said, "I must—I must—I must increase my bust." She said it over and over. We copied her movements and chanted with her. "We must—we must—we must increase our bust!