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Judith Viorst

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


— Judith Viorst


#strength #life

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.


— Judith Viorst


#love

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


— Judith Viorst


#bar #bare #break #capacity #chocolate

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.


— Judith Viorst


#children #deserve #earned #end #face

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


— Judith Viorst


#accident #automobile #bracket #girdle #higher

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.


— Judith Viorst


#each #even #keeps #love #love is

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.


— Judith Viorst


#children #connection #give #hard #hope

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.


— Judith Viorst


#advantage #again #fall #falls #him

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.


— Judith Viorst


#could #husband #i #such #wife

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.


— Judith Viorst


#feel #like #love #love is #same






About Judith Viorst






Did you know about Judith Viorst?

Monti: A Merry Little Tale of Sex and Violence (1994)
Imperfect Control: Our Lifelong Struggles With Power and Surrender (1998)
You're Officially a Grown-up: The Graduate's Guide to Freedom Responsibility Happiness and Personal Hygiene (1999)
Grown-Up Marriage: What We Know Wish We Had Known and Still Need to Know About Being Married (2003)


The age-related poetry series
It's Hard to Be Hip Over 30 & Other Tragedies of Married Life (1968) (Reprinted in 1999 by Persephone Books)
How Did I Get to Be 40 & Other Atrocities illustrated by John Alcorn (1976)
When Did I Stop Being 20 & Other Injustices: Selected Poems from Single to Mid-Life illustrated by John Alcorn (1987)
Forever 50 & Other Negotiations illustrated by John Alcorn (1989)
Suddenly 60 & Other Shocks of Later Life illustrated by Laurie Rosewald (2000)
I'm Too Young to Be 70 & Other Delusions illustrated by Laura Gibson (2005)
"Unexpectedly Eighty & Other Adaptations:: illustrated by Laura Gibson (2010)


"Lulu" Series
1. New York: Atheneum. Viorst is a 1952 graduate of the Newark College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University in Newark New Jersey.

In the latter part of the 1970s after two decades of writing for children and adults Judith Viorst turned to the study of Freudian psychology. Judith Viorst (born February 3 1931) is an American author newspaper journalist and psychoanalysis researcher.

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