#puberty

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

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

— David Brin

#puberty #school #teenage #education

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

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty. ↗

— Dom DeLuise

#could #decided #either #i #old

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

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

— Manasa Rao

#puberty #change

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

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#poetry #poets #puberty #reach #stop

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#energetic #holding #job #keep #long

And so I was scared. I was scared of my own sexual hunger, which felt so secretive and uncharted, and I was scared of the sexual hunger of boys, which felt so vivid and overt, and I was terribly uncertain of the relationships between sex and power and value, which seemed so merged and hard to tease apart. In the midst of all that, I didn't exactly loathe my body, or feel ashamed of it, but I was deeply ashamed of my fear, which felt disabling and immature and woefully, painfully uncool, a terrible secret, evidence of some profound failing and ignorance on my part. Other girls, or so I imagined, knew what to do, how to use their power, how to derive pleasure from it, and in contrast, I felt not only freakish but isolated, as though I was standing outside a vital, defining loop. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#power #puberty #sexuality #imagination