The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers w...
JUDY BLUME I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.
JUDY BLUME My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Pleas...
JUDY BLUME When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.
JUDY BLUME When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,&#...
JUDY BLUME I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if ...
JUDY BLUME If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't w...
JUDY BLUME Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk ...
JUDY BLUME Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting N...
JUDY BLUME I have a great T-shirt that I received at the New Jersey Hall of Fame when I was inducted. It says -...
JUDY BLUME When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a...
JUDY BLUME Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the p...
JUDY BLUME Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.
JUDY BLUME You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and dayd...
JUDY BLUME Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope...
JUDY BLUME I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I ha...
JUDY BLUME When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ...
JUDY BLUME I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books...
JUDY BLUME I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe.
JUDY BLUME I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power the...
JUDY BLUME When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it...
JUDY BLUME My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it.
JUDY BLUME Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best ...
JUDY BLUME A good writer is always a people watcher.
JUDY BLUME I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around w...
JUDY BLUME I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids t...
JUDY BLUME When I was growing up in the 1950s, sweaters were a huge thing.
JUDY BLUME I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to pres...
JUDY BLUME I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book...
JUDY BLUME Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the '50s. Not ever...
JUDY BLUME My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva ...
JUDY BLUME Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.
JUDY BLUME [I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. ...
JUDY BLUME I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live ...
JUDY BLUME You'd think he was the first person to ever lose a tooth!
JUDY BLUME You mean inside? Or outside?
JUDY BLUME Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret,
JUDY BLUME My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it.
JUDY BLUME Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. Y...
JUDY BLUME No place has delicatessen like New York.
JUDY BLUME One of my concerns is that writers will begin to feel the censor on their backs, and we won't get th...
JUDY BLUME Those who would challenge or ban a book have to find out about it first,
JUDY BLUME Don't buy anything controversial. We don't want any trouble in our community.
JUDY BLUME I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness.
JUDY BLUME I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that ...
JUDY BLUME When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or a...
JUDY BLUME My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum...
JUDY BLUME The protests against Harry Potter follow a tradition that has been growing since the early 1980s and...
JUDY BLUME The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you ...
JUDY BLUME Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
JUDY BLUME My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
JUDY BLUME Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need
JUDY BLUME A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.
JUDY BLUME You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
JUDY BLUME In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting...
JUDY BLUME It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.
JUDY BLUME Precious Child... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, n...
JUDY BLUME Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are.
JUDY BLUME Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave m...
JUDY BLUME It was a pretty even game the third quarter. In the fourth quarter we just didn't do the things down...
BRIAN BLUME It's probably something she's been playing with the whole season. It's been bothering her and she go...
BRIAN BLUME We've improved, but I'm sure Heath has as well. The last time we played them there was a 30-4 free-t...
BRIAN BLUME We just played real lethargic the whole first half. They got a good chewing at halftime and came out...
BRIAN BLUME They're the heart and soul of this team. They play the majority of the minutes. They've been there b...
BRIAN BLUME We were 6-for-15 (40 percent) from the line. That's only counting the front end of one-and-ones. Whe...
BRIAN BLUME I'm really proud of what everyone is doing. I told them we're finally getting five people on the flo...
BRIAN BLUME They shot the ball well in the second half and we didn't. They were able to get back into the game.
BRIAN BLUME She's really stepping up in her senior year. She's now in command of the team and doing a nice job o...
BRIAN BLUME Priest got her fourth foul early in the third quarter. We had to play a quarter of time without her....
BRIAN BLUME We've been shooting well in the second half of the season. We didn't shoot well against Heath. We we...
BRIAN BLUME The adult incest survivor is likely to become involved in sexual relationships with older or more po...
E. SUE BLUME ...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her...
E. SUE BLUME If I, as a child, claim that something awful has happened—that someone has done something terrible...
E. SUE BLUME Are you watching the boats?" Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitemen...
LESLEY M.M. BLUME Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really lo...
LESLEY M.M. BLUME If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.
JUDY HOLLIDAY I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
JUDY COLLINS I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't...
JUDY HOLLIDAY I'd been dating my husband for about a year, and I'd already kissed George Clooney, Ashton K...
JUDY GREER Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small populati...
JUDY HORACEK That's a lot of words about the weather, but in Canberra you can't help but be aware of the ...
JUDY HORACEK The hardest thing about living in Canberra is that almost everyone who doesn't live here asks: &...
JUDY HORACEK While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets ...
JUDY HORACEK I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.
JUDY COLLINS My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag car...
JUDY GOLD Beauty fades, dumb is forever.
JUDY SHEINDLIN Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
JUDY GARLAND I have a phonetic fetish. All I want is to find a man whose last name ends in 'Vrski' and marry him....
JUDY BALAN I love therapy. I don't get the taboo about seeking therapy at all. It's exactly like taking Buzzfee...
JUDY BALAN Modern-Day Parenting is no joke. For starters, no one takes you seriously unless you have a fancy pa...
JUDY BALAN Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else.
JUDY GARLAND I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
JUDY GARLAND If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've ...
JUDY GARLAND If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I'll do everything to help her.
JUDY GARLAND Ask a heckler to identify himself and his company. They usually prefer to be anonymous.
JUDY MOREO Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
JUDY GARLAND In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than t...
JUDY GARLAND I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow....
JUDY GARLAND For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my s...
JUDY GARLAND We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by ...
JUDY GARLAND Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or...
JUDY SMITH No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No...
JUDY BIGGERT If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the go...
JUDY WOODRUFF This is why Alzheimer's is such a terrible disease: the body of the person you love is there, bu...
JUDY PARFITT But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grand...
JUDY WOODRUFF Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, b...
JUDY BIGGERT I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
JUDY GARLAND We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by r...
JUDY GARLAND If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
JUDY GARLAND I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of ...
JUDY GARLAND When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a m...
JUDY GARLAND Behind every cloud is another cloud.
JUDY GARLAND I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won...
JUDY GOLD Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and earl...
JUDY BIGGERT As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naught...
JUDY REYES That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can u...
JUDY PARFITT I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a te...
JUDY GREER A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.
JUDY SHEINDLIN Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?
JUDY WOODRUFF Megyn Kelly is one of those rare women who seamlessly combines professional excellence and family. S...
JUDY SHEINDLIN It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you h...
JUDY GREER If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself...
JUDY COLLINS When I go on vacation, I leave my house in total order: bills paid, garbage out, no milk in the refr...
JUDY SHEINDLIN I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance ...
JUDY HOLLIDAY I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.
JUDY SHEINDLIN A wonderful quality about America is that we love redemption stories. We're quick to lash out an...
JUDY SMITH People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it'...
JUDY CHICAGO Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.
JUDY GOLD I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.
JUDY BIGGERT Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recomm...
JUDY COLLINS I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
JUDY CHICAGO This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it&#...
JUDY DAVIS I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
JUDY GARLAND I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.
JUDY PARFITT Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.
JUDY PARFITT Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
JUDY COLLINS I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts...
JUDY COLLINS I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That wo...
JUDY SHEINDLIN Wings of angels, tears of saints won't bring you back to me (about her son's suicide) (He will come ...
JUDY COLLINS Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways t...
JUDY AYDELOTT It's going to be very expensive. We still have a lot of fundraising to do.
JUDY AYDELOTT I am proud to be a Democrat. Unfortunately, some of my political opponents are attempting to mislead...
JUDY AYDELOTT The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. The tro...
JUDY AYDELOTT I am still experimenting with a little bit of the chemistry on the field, working in some of the sop...
JUDY ANDERSON There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, an...
JUDY ANDERSON Our concepts for the Hilton are innovative and will be trend-setting in the hospitality industry. We...
JUDY ANDERSON The way they're so proper.
JUDY ANDERSON And it's kind of hard to prioritize things when you're not sure you've got enough money to run your ...
JUDY ANDERSON It's projects that have been on the program and on hold for so many years,
JUDY ANDERSON Right now, we've got our projected cost out to 2010,
JUDY ANDERSON They do that for all the employees, ... In some places, the employees pay a portion of their share f...
JUDY ANDERSON We are finally starting to click and run our transition like we knew we could. We are throwing and c...
JUDY ANDERSON Tasty Wednesday
JUDY ANDERSON The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store.
JUDY ALFORD You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. They argue about it, ...
JUDY ALFORD You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar.
JUDY ALFORD It said the birds would eat the berries if there was a bad winter, but even with a cold snap, they s...
JUDY ALFORD The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.
JUDY SMITH I don't have two different personalities. I am what I am.
JUDY SHEINDLIN Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying...
JUDY PARFITT With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impu...
JUDY CHICAGO If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never...
JUDY GARLAND I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is kno...
JUDY GARLAND Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who w...
JUDY GARLAND Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
JUDY GARLAND What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.
JUDY GRAHN Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
JUDY GARLAND I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recor...
JUDY COLLINS Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else
JUDY GARLAND THE MANY FACES OF SURVIVAL

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JUDY GREGERSON I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertain...
JUDY GREER We've got a problem. There does appear to be a trend that reproduction is not enough -- especially o...
JUDY VISTY I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I bel...
JUDY CHICAGO Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark remind...
JUDY BIGGERT Rightfully given near-deity status in the early days of industrial America, the J.P. Morgans, Rockef...
JUDY SMITH I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do ...
JUDY CHICAGO He struck me many times,
JUDY GARLAND I could sketch out a score in different keys, a new way each time.
JUDY GARLAND You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is su...
JUDY GARLAND You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our ...
JUDY GARLAND I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the flo...
JUDY GARLAND If you sit down for 20 minutes in this business now it's a comeback,
JUDY GARLAND I'm the original take-orders girl.
JUDY GARLAND I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
JUDY GARLAND You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It...
JUDY GARLAND I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse ...
JUDY GARLAND How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
JUDY GARLAND That way you won't need to pick at anything before lunchtime.
JUDY DAVIE A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People ...
JUDY GARLAND People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.
JUDY HOLLIDAY When Joan Rivers walked through the curtain on 'The Tonight Show,' nobody in my house was al...
JUDY GOLD He is morally and intellectually superior to his white masters. They're lazy where he is hardworking...
JUDY CHRISTENSEN Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.
JUDY DAVIS It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' as ...
JUDY HORACEK Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, t...
JUDY BIGGERT I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, the...
JUDY COLLINS I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client ...
JUDY SMITH If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasi...
JUDY BIGGERT When clients are involved in a crisis, we often start at the end. When this is over, where do you wa...
JUDY SMITH And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row...
JUDY WOODRUFF