Judith Viorst

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

— Judith Viorst

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wifes husband.

— Judith Viorst

I think I'll move to Australia.

— Judith Viorst

You could never plan your life in a million years.

— Judith Viorst

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

— Judith Viorst

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

— Judith Viorst

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

— Judith Viorst

“There comes a time when we aren't allowed not to know.”

— Judith Viorst

the lives we lead are determined, for better and worse, by our loss experiences.

— Judith Viorst

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

— Judith Viorst

My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience.

— Judith Viorst

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

— Judith Viorst

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

— Judith Viorst

I like to take all my feelings and thoughts and put them down in different ways on paper.

— Judith Viorst

It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.

— Judith Viorst

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

— Judith Viorst

I wrote 'And Two Boys Booed' several years ago, but we really chased around looking for the perfect illustrator, so it took…

— Judith Viorst

My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters.…

— Judith Viorst

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make…

— Judith Viorst

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy,…

— Judith Viorst

If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is…

— 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

Kids need to encounter kids like themselves - kids who can sometimes be crabby and fresh and rebellious, kids who talk back…

— Judith Viorst

Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s. It's going…

— Judith Viorst

We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And…

— Judith Viorst

Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of…

— 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

Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled out by a hostile,…

— Judith Viorst

as we acquire new aches and new pains, our health care is, of necessity, being supplied by internists, cardiologists, dermatologists, podiatrists, urologists,…

— Judith Viorst

Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of…

— 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

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

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.

— Judith Viorst

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

— Judith Viorst

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

I didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.

— Judith Viorst

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

— Judith Viorst

It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.

— Judith Viorst

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd…

— Judith Viorst

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

— Judith Viorst