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Quotes About Puberty

When I was in middle school and even high school, I wasn't comfortable with my body. I look back, and it makes me sad, but I've grown into my body and really embrace it. I don't have the typical girl body; I'm kind of built like a boy.
~ Kelley O'Hara
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
~ Tanya Roberts
At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
~ Dan Stevens
I was twelve, after all, an age at which kids are bewildered and amorphous, transforming overnight, no matter how stable their lives are;
~ Tana French
I had a mustache when I was 13.
~ David Schwimmer
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
This was Zane Alexander, the boy who had been a Casanova since he hit puberty.
~ Cat Johnson
The ninth grade. I went from 5'9' to 6'8'.
~ Bubba Smith
Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want and men can't be bothered with. ... The perfect match, if you ask me, is between the Cosmo woman and the fourteen-year old boy.
~ Nick Hornby
What was in it for me? I wasn't asking for any sort of reciprocation, after all. Why didn't she want her erogenous zones stimulated? I have no idea. All I know is that you could, if you wanted to, find the answers to all sorts of difficult questions buried in that terrible war-torn interregnum between the first pubic hair and the first soiled Trojan.
~ Nick Hornby
All I know is that you could, if you wanted to, find the answers to all sorts of difficult questions buried in that terrible war-torn interregnum between the first pubic hair and the first soiled Trojan.
~ Nick Hornby
Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever and funny behavior, but let them get that first erection and they go complete moron for the next sixty years. For both genders, adolescence occurs as a kind of Ice Age of Dumbness.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Your being born make your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan just because you want something better.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Jump to one time, late one night, driving between Nowhere, Wyoming, and WhoKnowsWhere, Montana, when Seth says how your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. "Then puberty makes you Satan," he says, "just because you want something better." J
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I was eleven years old with menarche barreling down on me like a speeding bloodmobile.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Mädchen kriegen Titten und vergessen, wie klug und mutig sie einmal waren. Auch Jungen haben ihre eigene Art von Intelligenz und Humor, aber kaum kriegen sie ihre erste Erektion, verlieren sie den Verstand und laufen die nächsten sechzig Jahre als komplett Schwachsinnige durch die Welt. Für beide Geschlechter ist die Pubertät so etwas wie eine Eiszeit der Dummheit.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There are the social struggles, and the agonies and embarrassments of puberty... and the weight of the world that falls upon each of us in varying degrees, as we finally relinquish childhood's clouds in glory to live, ever after, in our earthly realm
~ Claire Messud
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
the knot of their interdependencies grew, until marriage began to seem far simpler than disentanglement, and, once accepted, almost as natural as puberty or death.
~ Greg Egan
Women are the perfect creation. I don't care who hears that. Even before I hit puberty, they lived nightly in my dreams, and I have the feeling they'll live with me in the grave.
~ James Lee Burke
I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.
~ Kelly Preston
Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70, you start going back to being 11 again.
~ Morris Gleitzman
I was short until my senior year. It's just, like, your social status is so dependent on how quickly you hit puberty, basically.
~ Phil Lord