Judy Blume Quotes

I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied.

I was brutally bullied in school. I had short hair and buck teeth and kids would call out to me in the most nasty ways possible.

The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.

I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with people and just say, 'Hey, I'm being bullied. I need help.'

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

I was bullied a lot as a kid.

My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.

It started in middle school. Once, a group of girls locked me in the janitor's closet. Another time, a girl spilled chocolate milk down a dress I made. Girls would try to trip me in the hallway.

I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.

I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'

I was bullied a lot in middle school, and my bullies have since all apologized.

My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.

I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

Kids are really cruel.

I was 'gay-bashed' when I was in school even though, you know, I'm not... I'm a straight guy that just happens to be what I do. So, it's easily relatable to me. It was awful. It's a hard time in a kid's life.