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" I don't have anything new to say about teenagers. "
Judy Blume
Teenagers
Anything
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" My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands. "
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" I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers. "
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" The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students' right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year. "
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" Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones. "
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" Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the '50s. Not everybody, but in my milieu. My crowd. You went to college, and you got a degree in case, God forbid, you ever had to work. And you better find somebody to marry while you're there, because otherwise, what's going to become of you? "
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" My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen. "
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" It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination. "
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Book
" In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on. "
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" My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.' "
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" Telling kids the truth isn't always entirely possible, but talking to them is. "
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