00:00My daughter said,
00:01Mother, couldn't you write a book about teenagers
00:03who fall in love and do it
00:05and nobody has to die?
00:07And I thought, yes!
00:10Are you there, God?
00:11It's me, Margaret.
00:12I felt like someone was being honest.
00:13That's a gift. That's magic.
00:14There was this moment where, wow, Judy's talking to me.
00:17I read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.
00:19I read Dini. I like the blubber.
00:21This is my favorite book.
00:22I grew up as a good girl with a bad girl lurking inside.
00:26So by the time I started to write, I really had a lot to get out.
00:30I could be fearless in my writing
00:32in a way that maybe I wasn't always in my life.
00:36It was the first book I had read about wanting to grow boobs
00:38and the myths around how to get them and what to do.
00:41Everything I learned about sex or crushes, I learned from Judy.
00:45Let's all say it.
00:47Masturbation.
00:48Let's raise our hands if we masturbate, everybody.
00:53Oh, Judy.
00:59Overnight, the censors came out of the woodwork.
01:03Forever is banned year after year.
01:04Margaret gets banned because it talks about bras.
01:08I think the kids have a right to read
01:10and to get honest answers to their questions.
01:12What sounds like normally is that?
01:14Dear Judy.
01:15Dear Judy.
01:15Dear Judy.
01:16Today was the worst.
01:17I have a million problems.
01:18Kids opened up to me in a way that they couldn't to their parents.
01:22and I would answer.
01:23This is the first letter I got from Judy.
01:26That was the beginning.
01:27We wrote for many years.
01:30She allowed young women to be as complicated and messy and funny as we are.
01:38I had that recognition of I trust you
01:40and wherever you're going, I'm down to come with you.
01:43I don't think that Judy Blume wrote her books to be timeless.
01:45I think she wrote her books to be timely
01:47and they were so timely that they became timeless.
01:50Be a man, growling love.
