Quotes About Puberty

I used to not have any confidence when it came to my body - I developed very late in terms of being a girl!

You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.

they found considerable plasticity from the onset of puberty into the early twenties. Once this was discovered, it became obvious that the upheavals of adolescence and early adulthood coincide with a previously unrecognized sensitive period of brain maturation in the prefrontal cortex

the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.

Quichotte when young had been a little short, a little chubby compared to other boys his age. Then, in late adolescence, as if an invisible divine hand had grabbed him and squeezed him in the middle like a tube of toothpaste, he shot up to his present height and became as skinny as a shadow.

Middle Tennessee? Really? My bracket is more busted than Screech's face during puberty.

I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Adolescents' heroic willingness to fight one another in wars and (just as life is beginning!) to die for someone else's cause may be a result of the fact that during puberty the warded-off hatred from early childhood becomes really intensified. Adolescents can divert this hatred from their parents if they are given a clear-cut enemy whom they are permitted to hate freely and with impunity.

How Horrid has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.

My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.

I had curly hair, braces, pimples - you talk about going through puberty and the worst things that go with it, I had it, for sure. And then I had a bottom retainer, so my lisp was really bad. I still have a minor one when I get really excited.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

I usually say I left puberty at 58.

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height.

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!'

I was so awkward and gangly, and went through puberty way too young - I got really self-conscious about it.

Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.

I was going through puberty and was much curvier than other girls, which made me insecure. Then I saw J. Lo on the cover of 'Latina' magazine, and she embraced those curves and was proud of who she was.