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Quotes About Puberty

When I was a freshman, I was 5 feet 9 and totally skinny as a pole. Knock-knees and bad hair. Then, over that summer, I grew up a little bit. Not that I was some super beauty, but at least I didn't look like I was 10 anymore and had a little self-confidence.
~ Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Who am I kidding? What am I going to do with a girl like her?" "We had this talk when we were fourteen. I even brought my brother's Hustler for visual assistance.
~ Shelly Laurenston
It was the zero bullshit. If you ever met a middle school girl, you know what they are: volcano eruptions of bullshit. Every minute a new emergency, the best friend turned enemy. Some
~ Barbara Kingsolver
A girl has shorter vocal cords than a boy, so it actually takes less effort for her to talk. As for boys' their vocal cords double in length during puberty. This can make it a lot of work for them to spit something out! Guys are four times more likely than girls to have a stuttering problem. So, because many boys aren't as good at talking as girls, they do less of it.
~ Bart King
I did not have implants, I just had a growth spurt.
~ Britney Spears
What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.
~ Gregory Peck
My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.
~ Bill Cosby
I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.
~ Jeff Kinney
Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Gee, Cingle, that's pretty subtle." She spread her arms. "Subtlety ended for me the day I hit puberty.
~ Harlan Coben
You are taught about puberty and the menopause and how tough they can be, but a quarter-life crisis, you're not prepared for.
~ Emily Atack
I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra late bloomer, and my mom would say it was a blessing because it means you never have to wonder if guys are only interested in you because you've got boobs.
~ Anna Kendrick
I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It's actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.
~ Meg Cabot
Ever since puberty I have believed in the value of two things: kindness and clear thinking. At first these two remained more or less distinct; when I felt triumphant I believed most in clear thinking, and in the opposite mood I believed most in kindness. Gradually, the two have come more and more together in my feelings. I find that much unclear thought exists as an excuse for cruelty, and that much cruelty is prompted by superstitious beliefs.
~ Bertrand Russell
When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.
~ Brianna Brown
I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.
~ Lisi Harrison
Since most sexual abuse begins well before puberty, preventive education, if it is to have any effect at all, should begin early in grade school.
~ Judith Lewis Herman
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.
~ Jules Feiffer
Twelve years old. I was happy. My friend had a Ouija board, asked when we were going to get our periods, looked down, and I saw blood.
~ Eve Ensler
Song for the Puberty Rite of a Girl Named Cowaka: A poor man takes the songs in his hand And drops them near the place where the sun sets. See, Cowaka, run to them and take them in your hand, And place them under the sunset.
~ Frances Densmore
As for that which is commonly called love in novels and in life, though capable of affording a very exquisite bliss in its little season, it is a matter with which mere puberty and the bloom of physical life has so much to do, that except in the way of regulation (which is anything but an easy matter), it does not come under the category of morals at all.
~ blackie john stuart ii
Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, and they had it until they were in their fifties. At the time, Jean Louise was so overcome with despair at the prospect of being too old to enjoy anything when it would finally be over, she refrained from pursuing the subject.
~ Harper Lee
As in puberty,] There will be tears. And anger. And tragically unfortunate haircuts.
~ Heather Corinna