Judy Blume Quotes

Without peanut butter, I might starve.

Do not tell me what to do and do not tell me what I can't do.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

My mother never talked about sex. I was on the Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] show once - this is years and years and years ago - and it was her Mother's Day show. And I didn't know what we were going to talk about but what she decided we were going to talk about was female masturbation. My mother had invited all her girlfriends. And you know these were all women in their late seventy's maybe they were in their eighty's by then and then and they were horrified because Dr Ruth had a little she had a little chart up you know "female masturbation".

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.

"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.