Judith Viorst
Judith Viorst
Judith Viorstis an American writer, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is perhaps best known for her children's literature, such as The Tenth Good Thing About Barneyand the Alexander series of short picture books, which includes Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which has sold over two million copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth3 February 1931
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.
Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.
Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.
Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.
Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.
A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent if he acts normal.
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.
I think I'll move to Australia.
For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've found.
There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.
We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
My mom says I'm her sugarplum. My mom says I'm her lamb. My mom says I'm completely perfect Just the way I am. My mom says I'm a super-special wonderful terrific little guy. My mom just had another baby. Why?