#puberty

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

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

Hey, look—your girlfriend is saying something." Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl? ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#humor #insults #puberty #humor

What’s so beautiful about girls?” I would implore. And the secret society of adults would reply with a smirk and wink as if I was merely a boy who couldn’t possibly have the mental maturity to comprehend such grown-up concepts as love and bleeding vaginas; “You’ll understand someday, James. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#growing-up #puberty #puppy-love #the-perfect-girl #age

When assaulted by sexual knowledge for the first time, a girl plunges into a period of blackness, which is required in order to let her emotions catch up with her body. Sleeping Beauty sleeps. Cinderella waits, and while she waits she works her way through the darkness of depression. Snow White both works and sleeps before she is ready to open her eyes and find a Prince leaning over her. ↗

— Joan Gould

#fairy-tales #girls #puberty #sexuality #sleep

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

— Dom DeLuise

#could #decided #either #i #old