Judith Viorst Quotes

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• It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.
• Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining…
• Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They…
• The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate…
• For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've…
• Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.
• 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 as…
• We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is…
• I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.
• Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.
• Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.
• If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and…
• There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as…
• Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.
• We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking,…
• Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.
• For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in…
• Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.
• 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 left-anything…
• Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

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