WIST Quotations

Viorst, Judith -- Love & Guilt & the Meaning of Life, Etc. (1979)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

Judith Viorst (b. 1931) American writer, journalist, psychoanalysis researcher
Love & Guilt & the Meaning of Life, Etc. (1979)

Viorst, Judith -- Love and Shrimp (1999) [with Shelly Markam]

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

Judith Viorst (b. 1931) American writer, journalist, psychoanalysis researcher
Love and Shrimp (1999) [with Shelly Markam]
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Viorst, Judith -- Necessary Losses, Introduction (1986)

Dave — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:58:40 +0000

When we think of loss we think of the loss, through death, of people we love. But loss is a far more encompassing theme in our life. For we lose not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety — and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.

Judith Viorst (b. 1931) American writer, journalist, psychoanalysis researcher
Necessary Losses, Introduction (1986)
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Viorst, Judith -- Redbook Magazine (mid-1970s)

Dave — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 17:28:09 +0000

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 (b. 1931) American writer, journalist, psychoanalysis researcher
Redbook Magazine (mid-1970s)

Attributed in many places. More information: The Big Apple: “Strength is breaking a chocolate bar into four pieces with your hands — and then eating just one”

Viorst, Judith -- Yes, Married (1972)

Dave — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:07:44 +0000

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.

Judith Viorst (b. 1931) American writer, journalist, psychoanalysis researcher
Yes, Married (1972)