"There is a time to separate from our……" — Judith Viorst
"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 is better than separation."
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42 Quotes by Judith Viorst
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It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.
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Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be…
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Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and…
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The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as…
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For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough…
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Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.
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Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as…
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We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by…
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I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.
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Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.
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Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.
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If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death…
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