We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children.… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Kids need to encounter kids like themselves - kids who can sometimes be crabby and fresh and rebellious, kids who talk back… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only knew… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“Indeed, analyst Robert Bak calls orgasm "the perfect promise between love and death," the means by which we repatriate separation of mother… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone--childhood's end. We have left asafe place… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“...we should never grow so old, or change so much, that we cannot find room in our hearts for the wisdom of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Just as children, step by step, must separate from their parents, we will have to separate from them. And we will probably… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I actually sat down and started three Alexanders at the same time. Two of them went in the trash and got stomped on because… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
as we acquire new aches and new pains, our health care is, of necessity, being supplied by internists, cardiologists, dermatologists, podiatrists, urologists, periodontists, gynecologists… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“I didn't really notice that he had a funny nose. And he certainly looked better all dressed up in fancy clothes. He's not nearly… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only knew her in… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear or feel… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Don't let anything sneak past you. Don't say, 'Well, oh, I'll take a picture and put it in my photograph album.' I notice it… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
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