Puberty Quotes

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

  G. Stanley Hall

  Girl, Sea, Rivers

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• By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

  Russell Brand

  Succeed, Purposefulness

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• Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

  Claire Danes

  Nice, Maturity, Stride

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Children, Order, Discipline

  Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.348, Columbia University Press

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• My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.

  S.G. Browne

  Mother, Support, Trying

  S.G. Browne (2009). “Breathers: A Zombie's Lament”, p.17, Three Rivers Press

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

  Bob Geldof

  Lucky, Intertwined

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• After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Children, Responsibility, Personality

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• The best things in life make you sweaty.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Philosophical, Purpose

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• I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first.

  Mara Wilson

  Firsts, Looking Forward, Remember

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  Tanya Roberts

  Ugly Duckling, Ugly, Ducklings

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• I could show you a picture right now where I look like something from The Hills Have Eyes. Talk about an awkward stage. Puberty was not good at all.

  Jacob Artist

  Eye, Awkward, Looks

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• When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Dad, Looks, Kind

  "Shooting the Sass Easily as an Arrow" By Melena Ryzik, www.nytimes.com. November 9, 2012.

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• If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Teenager, Twenties, Wanted

  "The Replacement". Play by Jacob M. Appel, 2008.

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• Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

  Katharine Isabelle

  Girl, Confusing, Body

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• No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

  Francine Pascal

  Parent, Body, Matter

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• Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

  Will Self

  Sports, Effort, Chosen

  "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.

  Judy Blume

  Bullying, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

  Chris Pine

  Gone, Outcast, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

  George William Curtis

  Teenage, Mistake, Believe

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• Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Guitar, Rooms

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• What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Peace, War, Ceremony

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• Hey, God made us sexual creatures. If he wanted teenagers to wait that long, he would have made puberty start at twenty-five.

  Natasha Friend

  Teenager, Long, Waiting

  Natasha Friend (2010). “For Keeps”, p.50, Penguin

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• Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Baby, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

  Linda Hunt

  Growing Up, Teenage, Years

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• Becoming a comedienne was my way of adjusting to puberty.

  Phyllis Diller

  Humor, Adjusting, Way

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