Top 150 Judy Blume Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I lived in New York for eleven and a half years and I don’t think anybody ever asked me about my religion. I never even thought about it. Now, all of a sudden, it was the big thing in my life.”

— Judy Blume

102. “Anything could go wrong any day of the week. What’s the point of worrying in advance?”

— Judy Blume

103. “It’s funny how you can grow away from your friends, when just a few years ago they were the most important people in your life.”

— Judy Blume

104. “He’s not like anything. He’s a person who just happens to have been born with something he can’t control. It could have happened to you. It could have happened to any of us. So the next time you see someone in a chair, someone spastic, just imagine if that were you! The same you who’s standing here now, but your mind’s been trapped inside a body you can’t control!”

— Judy Blume

105. “I wonder what it’s like watching ladies try on underwear all day? I’d really like to get a look at that!”

— Judy Blume

106. “Especially since my mother says Grandma is too much of an influence on me.”

— Judy Blume

107. “You can’t deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.”

— Judy Blume

108. “Everyone knew Eleanor was the smartest person in their class. So when she said sabotage the rest of them went scrambling for the Merriam-Webster dictionary.”

— Judy Blume

109. “The best books come from someplace inside. You don’t write because you want to, but because you have to.”

— Judy Blume

110. “There are some people who just make you want to see how far you can go.”

— Judy Blume

111. “So many adults are exhausting themselves worrying about other people corrupting their children with books, they’re turning kids off to reading instead of turning them on.”

— Judy Blume

112. “Victoria closes her eyes, breathing in the familiar scent, and for a moment it’s as if they’ve never been apart. They’re still Vixen and Cassandra, summer sisters forever. The rest is a mistake, a crazy joke.”

— Judy Blume

113. “Come on, who wouldn’t be nervous about seeing her first love? Who wouldn’t want her old boyfriend to find her attractive? If you don’t want that, you don’t go to high school reunions, you don’t go to the thirty-fifth commemoration of the worst year of your life. Besides, she’s not fifteen anymore. She’s not that girl whose heart was broken on a sunny afternoon in May. She’s a woman, married.”

— Judy Blume

114. “Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.”

— Judy Blume

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

— Judy Blume

116. “There’s a lot of stuff you know and you don’t even know how you know it!”

— Judy Blume

117. “The next day, when I got up, Fudge’s bed was empty. He doesn’t know you’re supposed to sleep late when.”

— Judy Blume

118. “Terrible things can happen in this life but being in love changes everything. It gives you something to hold on to.”

— Judy Blume

119. “How many times had Rusty reminded Miri, You’re my only child. You’re my life. So when it comes to doing stupid things, don’t. Because I couldn’t stand it if I lost you. Do you understand? Now Miri thought she understood. There was a burden to being the only child.”

— Judy Blume

120. “What’s next on your reading list? Discover.”

— Judy Blume

121. “You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.”

— Judy Blume

122. “After drinking eight cups in a row, then walking home from school, then waiting for the elevator, then digging out my key and unlocking the door to our apartment, then dashing down the hall to the bathroom, I really had to pee. I mean, really. But Fudge was already in there, sitting on the toilet, turning the pages of Arthur the Anteater.”

— Judy Blume

123. “It’s not God’s job to decide what happens,” she’d said. “It’s his job to help you get.”

— Judy Blume

124. “When I heard that I got so mad I kicked a closet.”

— Judy Blume

125. “Trouble in our family is spelled with a capital C and has been as long as I can remember. The C stands for Charles. He’s my older brother, two years and four months older to be exact. Ever since the phone call about him last night, I’ve felt incredibly tense. And now, at this very minute, my parents are driving up to Vermont, to Charles’s boarding school, to find out if he’s actually been kicked out or if he’s just been suspended again. I.”

— Judy Blume

126. “I didn’t know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.”

— Judy Blume

127. “Moms come up to me at book signings.”

— Judy Blume

128. “Before the end of the week, Fudge asked the big question. “How did the baby get inside you, Mommy?” So.”

— Judy Blume

129. “To be ordinary was a fate worse than death.”

— Judy Blume

130. “Eleanor Gordon was the most sophisticated in their crowd. She read The New Yorker.”

— Judy Blume

131. “Why are we acting as if we’re angry. Are we angry?”

— Judy Blume

132. “But I am the greatest sister in the history of the world.”

— Judy Blume

133. “And I’m Hermione from –.”

— Judy Blume

134. “Understand that you’re sensitive.” Miri was proud for coming up with such a good word. “Is that like saying I’m dramatic, or crazy?” Miri was careful now. “Sensitive is better than dramatic, and it’s definitely not as bad as crazy.”

— Judy Blume

135. “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.”

— Judy Blume

136. “But you have to be sure you can handle the situation before you jump into it.”

— Judy Blume

137. “Help the Retarded. Two.”

— Judy Blume

138. “The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I’m writing.”

— Judy Blume

139. “Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places, doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Her twenty-seven books have won many awards, including the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Judy lives in Key West and New.”

— Judy Blume

140. “But I have discovered that if you love someone the way I love Mew, you learn to overlook the disgusting things.”

— Judy Blume

141. “I was about to drop a light one on his forehead when he reached up, grabbed me around the neck and pulled me down. Then he planted a big, wet smackeroo right in the middle of my face. “Sweet dreams, Pete!”

— Judy Blume

142. “For the rest of her life, every lovers’ quarrel would remind Vix of this night, this night when anger crackled in the air. She vowed then and there no guy would ever make her feel that bad.”

— Judy Blume

143. “We watched as the last.”

— Judy Blume

144. “You can fill a lifetime with if only’s or you can get on with it.”

— Judy Blume

145. “Besides, if they were going to be killed it would be better to be killed together, otherwise she’d have to explain to Lamb why Caitlin was murdered and she wasn’t.”

— Judy Blume

146. “It’s funny how when you try to help somebody else feel better you wind up feeling better yourself.”

— Judy Blume

147. “Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. My father’s had an awful accident. Please help him God. He’s really very kind and nice. Even though he doesn’t know you the way I do, he’s a good father. And he needs his hand God. So please, please let him be all right. I’ll do anything you say if you help him. Thank you God.”

— Judy Blume

148. “She said, “I must – I must – I must increase my bust.” She said it over and over. We copied her movements and chanted with her. “We must – we must – we must increase our bust!”

— Judy Blume

149. “Why anyone has children when they could have dogs is beyond me.”

— Judy Blume

150. “Well, that’s a first-year teacher for you! Didn’t he know that was a bad idea?”

— Judy Blume