Quotes About Adolescence

My rookie year, I was very immature.

When I was in high school, I tried too hard to be cool and to impress people, but playing all these different characters has helped me find myself again.

When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they weren't really writing scripts for that age.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

I grew six inches in a year.

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

I grew 3 inches every year of my high school career. I went from 5-7 to 5-10 to 6-1 to 6-4, so I was really small.

When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.

I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

It was a moment parents of a retarded daughter dread: their child out there on her own, drowning in the rough seas of male adolescent sexuality. Their child, whose idea of a friend is someone who play with her nicely, trying to be friends with a bunch of guys whose idea of play is pornography and voyeurism. It wasn't an even match.

Although Leslie was vulnerable to manipulation and abuse, it didn't mean that she was an uncomplicated person. She manuevered between two worlds: the world of her parents and the kid world. In the kid world, you could talk about boys and sex, but you didn't bring it home. Home was reserved for nice, polite conversation.

Dominique guessed her own sexual preferences from puberty, wisely kept them to herself, unsure how her friends or family would react, not wanting to be a social outcast she tried boys a couple of times they enjoyed it she endured it

You see, no one ever told her to keep her legs closed and crossed at the ankles. No one ever said: "Save it for the one you love" or "Good girls say no.

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'

As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.

When I started this character, it was me being 12 years old again. We would have other wrestlers come to our promos, and I'd geek out over them and show my excitement. I would just grab them and not let go.

I am wrestling with the overalls trend. I wore so many pairs in junior high, and no one thought they were cute. Perhaps I'll try them cuffed with a tasteful crop top?

I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.