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Judith Viorst Biography

Judith Viorst (born February 2, 1931) is an American writer, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is perhaps best known[citation needed] for her children's literature, such as The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (about the death of a pet) and the Alexander series of short picture books, which includes Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1972), which has sold over two million copies.

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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Childish, Cost, Doe, Knock, Primitive, Woods

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day, Together, Fall, Falls

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

Mother, Children, Father, Pretty, Writing

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Age, Barbara, Girl, Girls, Streisand, Trying

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

Adolescence, Body, Desperate, Effort, Psychological, Terms

Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness.

Engulfment, Mother, Stormily, Sweet, Swings

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.

Children, Needs, Parent, Stop, Urges

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Bracket, Funny, Holding, Love, Nicer, Valentines Day

Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

Gain, Growth, Loss, Pay, Price, Source

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

Bring, Early, Expectations, History, Lessons, Shapes

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

Golden, Grow, Growing Up, Living, Neurosis, Neurotic

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

Attention, Boredom, Readers, Spans, Tolerance

For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in women, sometimes by a pattern of loving and leaving them.

Absence, Leaving, Men, Mother, Sexual

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

Infancy, Love, Possess, Self, Self Love

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.

Doubt, Envy, Family, Gypped, Order, Position

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.

Back, Being In Love, Chair, Love, Love Is, Love You

Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

Athletic, Love Is, Nader, Sexy, Smart

the lives we lead are determined, for better and worse, by our loss experiences.

Determined, Experiences, Lives, Loss, Worse

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Break, Eat, Food, Hands, Inspirational, Strength

Our father presents an optional set of rhythms and responses for us to connect to. As a second home base, he makes it safer to roam. With him as an ally--a love--it is safer, too, to show that we're mad when we're mad at our mother. We can hate and not be abandoned, hate and still love.

Connect, Father, Hate, Mad, Mother

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