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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?

~Judy Blume

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In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on.

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In 1970, somebody once asked me whether I thought my books would still be around in 40 years, and I thought, 'How would I know, and why would I care?' Well, it turns out I really do care.

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

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Nobody ever asks me why my characters don't text each other. Besides, as soon as you put something 'electronic' in a book, it's already out of date by the time it's published: everything will have changed. Human emotion, on the other hand, will never change.

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When I was growing up in the 1950s, sweaters were a huge thing.

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I still have such a thing for leather jackets. I have a closet full of them, and my husband is always saying to me, 'Why do you need another jacket? You have plenty of jackets.'

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When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate.

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I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

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Everything they say a girl should get from her father in terms of total acceptance and love, I got all that from my father. But then I married a man just like my mother - so phlegmatic.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 12th, 1938

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