Quotes About Adolescence

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.'

I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in the seventh grade. Not leaving the house. Not looking people in the eye... My body made me feel bad at everything.

I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade.

I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

In about seventh grade, that's when we started playing around with beats, rhymes.

I mean, I did a play when I was in eighth grade, but who hasn't?

The first album that I bought with my own money was 50 Cent's 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'.' That was, like, the 5th grade, 6th grade.

I was 5-foot-8 when I graduated high school, but then I shot up to 6-foot-4 and got more into playing basketball.

I'm really proud of 'The Gift.' There are stories we can all relate to - a first love that went wrong, a person who bullied us at school, a kind person we took for granted.

Without parents, you sort of lose the gravity that keeps your feet on the earth.

I don't think I listen to anything that I did when I was 17. I've changed a great deal.

It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.

I was grounded for all of my childhood. Not most - all.

Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.