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Judith Viorst is an American author known for her humor and insightful writing. Born on February 2, 1931, her works span across children's literature, adult fiction, and poetry, with a particular talent for depicting life from a child's perspective.

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Famous Judith Viorst Quotes

“A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent if he acts normal.”

Ifs Normal

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.”

Ifs Love Is Love You Patterns Chairs Jail Being In Love Philadelphia Dentist

Book:Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

Source: Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

“If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is always being indulged. In otherwords, no matter what position we hold in family order of birth, we can prove beyond a doubt that we're being gypped.”

Ifs Feels May Matter Order Doubt Position Birth Prove No Matter What Envy

Author:Judith Viorst

“We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change as nothing else in our lives has the power to do. We grow (if we're willing to grow, that is: not every parent is willing) because being a parent helps us stop being a child.”

Ifs Needs Children Helping Force Grows Parent Our Lives Willing Our Children Permanent Urges Our Love Being A Parent Love Our Children

Author: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 save me.”

Ifs Mother True Love Drowning Save Me

Book:Grown-Up Marriage: What We Know, Wish We Had Known, and Still Need to Know About Being Married

Source: Grown-Up Marriage: What We Know, Wish We Had Known, and Still Need to Know About Being Married

“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 imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.”

Ifs Giving Trying Children Sometimes Hard Giving Up Connections Our Children Imperfect

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“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 feel guilty-and frightened too.”

People Ifs Feels May Fantasy Violence Guilty Frightened Ambitious

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex