Quotes About Maturation

I read Jilly Cooper when I was on the verge of just growing up and I was becoming a woman.

Alice was not aimed at changing anyone's mind. There is no moralizing or didactic aspect to Alice and Through the Looking Glass. Both are nonsense satires which lampoon adults but make no attempt to instruct children and are nearly absent of sentimentality. This was revolutionary in children's fiction and allowed for the maturation of the genre.

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.

If you work on anything long enough hopefully you'll get better and I feel like we're just growing.

Don't live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.

We're all a beautiful, wonderful work in progress....Embrace the process!

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

I've found that motherhood helps you figure out what absolutely needs to be done and what doesn't. You just learn to do everything quicker and quicker - your style and your makeup gets more refined and generally easier.

You don't want to wear any styles that are too young... I try to still dress glamorously, but not like my daughters.

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

As Helen, Edward and Louise grew up they had come to recognise their mother's outlook for what it was. They realised with discomfort that she was not so much egotistical as fettered – trapped within a perpetual adolescence. She moved for ever within a landscape whose only point of reference was herself.

She changed. But then you do, don't you? Otherwise what's the point of getting married? If it doesn't change you, I mean.

Overnight everyone has grown up. While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.

I feel like I aged for the better, for sure.

Quand son fils devint grand, il le mena chasser pour qu'il contractât cette sauvagerie de langage, cette rudesse de manières, cette force de corps, cette virilité dans le regard et dans la voix qui rendaient à ses yeux un homme accompli." Cité par Lucile Peytavin dans Le coût de la virilité

One day the cub will become a wolf, even if it has been reared among the sons of man.

Five figurative children, I have, whom I have raised since I was the age of fifteen.

You do a lot of growing up when you're pregnant. It's suddenly like, "Yikes. Here it is, folks. Playtime is over."

Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to my mind. I don't need her hands to convince me the world I can't see from under my blanket is real. I need her hands to do more than her words. Convince me the world I see outside it- ain't.

I think I'm a disciplined mom versus a strict mom. But also, that job - the disciplining was from birth until about 12, and at 12, I set my kids free, and they learned to become independent human beings.