Judith Viorst

I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you're not immortal, when you…

— Judith Viorst

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.

— Judith Viorst

You could never plan your life in a million years.

— Judith Viorst

“Indeed, analyst Robert Bak calls orgasm "the perfect promise between love and death," the means by which we repatriate separation of mother…

— Judith Viorst

Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and…

— Judith Viorst

My mom says I'm her sugarplum. My mom says I'm her lamb. My mom says I'm completely perfect Just the way I…

— Judith Viorst

My mother would have been so crazy about my grandchildren. She was a fabulous grandmother, and she would have been absolutely crazed…

— Judith Viorst

All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did…

— Judith Viorst

We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our…

— Judith Viorst

'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever' was inspired by a combination of my grandson, my son, and…

— Judith Viorst

“It is true love because when he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or…

— Judith Viorst

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in…

— Judith Viorst

We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car.…

— Judith Viorst

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

— Judith Viorst

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in…

— Judith Viorst

There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to…

— Judith Viorst

The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not…

— Judith Viorst

My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good…

— Judith Viorst

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you,…

— Judith Viorst

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste…

— Judith Viorst

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

For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any…

— Judith Viorst

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of…

— Judith Viorst

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of…

— Judith Viorst

Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

— Judith Viorst