Chapter Six
The Fourth Dimension
“In my heart, I was out there marching”: Judy Blume in conversation with Samantha Bee at an event at the 92nd Street Y on June 2, 2015. Accessed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7svP4zqCc0.
“a theory of patriarchy”: Kate Millett, The Second Sex (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1970), p. 24.
“Women who are employed have two jobs”: Ibid., p. 41.
During the 1960 race between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy: Weidt, Presenting Judy Blume, p. 119.
“Daddy and I just don’t enjoy being together”: Judy Blume, It’s Not the End of the World (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Bradbury Press, 1972), p. 85.
“I had you when I was just twenty”: Ibid., p. 102.
“The children need you at home, Ellie”: Ibid., p. 112.
“It was like the bacteria, the bad bacteria was coming out”: Judy Blume at the Arlington Public Library event on October 22, 2015. Accessed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUDBcovfFjM.
“My mother had many, many talents and much to offer”: Lee, Judy Blume’s Story, p. 78.
“the hero, the cowgirl, the detective”: V.C. Chickering, “A Judy Blume Interview from the Bust Archives,” Bust, February 12, 2015, originally published in the 1997 Spring/Summer issue. Accessed online: https://bust.com/tbt-a-very-special-judy-blume-exclusive-from-our-bust-vault/.
“She had a Roadster with a rumble seat”: Ibid.
Judy has said Dr. O was based on her father: Judy Blume in conversation with Samantha Bee at an event at the 92nd Street Y on June 2, 2015. Accessed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7svP4zqCc0.
“After that, she’d reinvented herself”: Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event (New York: Vintage Books, 2015), p. 385.
“in the feminine mystique, which defines woman solely”: Betty Freidan, It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement (New York: Norton, 1976). I worked from the 1991 reprint from Dell Books, p. 38.
“Women who work because of a commitment [to their vocation]”: Ibid., p. 42.
She endorses “a new kind of city living”: Ibid., p. 53.
“You never grew up! You’re still Ruth’s baby!”: Judy Blume, It’s Not the End of the World, p. 168.
Chapter Seven
Money
“It’s scary to think about my mother with no money to feed us or buy our clothes”: Judy Blume, It’s Not the End of the World (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Bradbury Press, 1972).
John controlled the family’s finances and doled out cash: Box 34 of the Judy Blume Papers at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Accessed April 28, 2022.
“The reason that divorce became the politicizing moment”: SK to RB, October 14, 2022.
“They were really sort of economically displaced”: Ibid., October 14, 2022.
“If there is any one thing that makes a feminist”: Betty Friedan, It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement (New York: Norton, 1976), p. 414.
“Women should be educated to do the work society rewards”: Ibid., p. 409.
“Our movement to liberate women and men from these polarized, unequal sex roles”: Ibid., p. 414.
“I don’t think I’ll ever get married,” she says: Judy Blume, It’s Not the End of the World, p. 1.
“My mother has no money that I know of”: Ibid., p. 76.
“Daddy can afford to”: Ibid., p. 153.
“self-help reading, a guide for those troubled by divorce”: Lael Scott, “Divorce Juvenile-Style,” New York Times, September 3, 1972.
about a mother who is so worried about her son’s meager appetite: Box 116 of the Judy Blume Papers at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Accessed April 28, 2022.
It was a decision he’d eventually come to regret: Pat Scales, “Natural Born Editor,” School Library Journal, May 2001, pp. 50–53.
who occasionally ate on the floor: Weidt, Presenting Judy Blume, p. 96.
“Oh no! My angel! My precious little baby!”: Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (New York: Dutton Books, 1972). I worked from the 2007 reprint from Puffin Books, p. 112.
“Someday she’ll grow up and go to school”: Judy Blume, Superfudge (New York: Dutton Books, 1980). I worked from the 2007 reprint from Puffin Books, p. 28.
Chapter Eight
Mothers
“One thing I’m sure of is I don’t want to spend my life cleaning some house like Ma”: Judy Blume, Deenie (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Bradbury Press, 1973). I worked from the 2014 reprint published by Simon & Schuster, p. 44.
