Puberty Quotes - Page 3

• Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, People, Insanity

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• Puberty was definitely difficult for me.

  Mara Wilson

  Difficult

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

  Park Chan-wook

  Catholic, Church, Week

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

  Dom DeLuise

  Years, Cooks, Decided

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• I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.

  Victoria Legrand

  Children, Voice, Piano

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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• When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

  Song: I'm Bo Yo

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• 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

  Agony, Creating, Personality

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato

  Wendell Berry

  Baby, Age, Citizens

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.85, Counterpoint

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• Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Girl, Dancer, Insecurity

  "Mia Wasikowska Talks Weight Obsession, Natalie Portman’s Ballet Dancing", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Remember, Quarrels

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives”, p.8, PM Press

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• 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

  Drinking, Years, Alcohol

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• There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.

  Alvin Dark

  Baseball, Real, Grandmother

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• What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Life Lesson, Eye

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• I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.

  Mara Wilson

  Self, Want, Scared

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• We should leave people alone about their weight. Being chubby for a while (provided you don’t give yourself diabetes) is a natural phase of life and nothing to be ashamed of. Like puberty or slowly turning into a Republican.

  Tina Fey

  People, Giving, Weight

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

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• She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Phones, Ifs

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• Let nature decide. When a cow is biologically ready to have sex relations, she mates with the nearest well-hung bull. When a flower is ready to scatter its seed, it pollinates. It's the same way throughout nature - except with man, who tries to postpone consummation of his sex drive, unsuccessfully for the most part, for six or eight years after he reaches puberty.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sex, Flower, Men

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• Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

  Richard Simmons

  Dog, Islands, Ice Cream

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

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• That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.

  Ian Christe

  Powerful, Roots, Fans

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• Nakedness is very common in the tribe. It is not a shameful thing; it is an expression of one's relationship with the spirit of nature. To be naked is to be open-hearted. Normally kids stay naked until puberty and even beyond. It was only with the introduction of cheap cloth from the West, through Goodwill and other Christian organisations, that nakedness began to be associated with shame.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Christian, Kids, Expression

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1994). “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”, Tarcher

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• But puberty was... well, before puberty, at school, I didn't tell kids I was a transvestite 'cause I thought they might kill me with sticks, you know?

  Eddie Izzard

  School, Kids, Causes

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• 'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.

  Lord Byron

  Philosophy, Thinking, Sky

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 93

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• I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, Woods, Britain

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• Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long been seen as a phase which centers on the fusion of sexual and social maturity. Indeed, adolescence as a concept has as long a history as that of puberty, which is sometimes considered more concrete, and hence much easier to name and to recognize.

  Terri E Apter

  Maturity, Names, Long

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• Karan Johar finally attained puberty at 42

  Pooja Bhatt

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