#puberty

When people are kids their parents teach them all sorts of stuff, some of it true and useful, some of it absurd hogwash (example of former: don't crap your pants; example of latter: Columbus discovered America). This is why puberty happens. The purpose of puberty is to shoot an innocent and gullible child full of nasty glandular secretions that manifest in the mind as confusion, in the innards as horniness, upon the skin as pimples, and on the tongue as cocksure venomous disbelief in every piece of information, true or false, gleaned from one's parents since infancy. The net result is a few years of familial hell culminating in the child's exodus from the parental nest, sooner or later followed by a peace treaty and the emergence of the postpubescent as an autonomous, free-thinking human being who knows that Columbus only trespassed on an island inhabited by our lost and distant Indian relatives, but who also knows not to crap his pants. ↗

— David James Duncan

#family

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school. ↗

— Kelly Preston

#going #happen #heroes #high #high school

Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. ...It was mostly men yelling shit from cars. Are they a patrol sent out to let girls know they've crossed into puberty? If so, it's working. ↗

— Tina Fey

#feminist #puberty #age

Facebook changes... Again!!! It's probably going through puberty ↗

— Manasa Rao

#puberty #change

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed. ↗

— David Brin

#puberty #school #teenage #education

The best things in life make you sweaty. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#life #love #meaning-of-life #philosophical #puberty

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#creating #female #feminine #ought #personality

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. ↗

— Granville Stanley Hall

#down #floating #girl #into #like

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#completely #i #i came #intertwined #lucky

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis. ↗

— George Montgomery

#alcohol #began #crisis #drinking #fifty