Quotes About Change

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

I usually say I left puberty at 58.

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.

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 had been on puberty suppressants and hormone suppressants, so I did not go through male puberty.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

Midlife is a time of explosive change, particularly for women. It's just like experiencing another puberty. The changes that take place in your body are enormous and, like puberty, you have to throw off the past.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country.

The core of my platform is to change the role of money in politics, support public education and break up monopoly power. All of these are fundamental prerequisites to a responsive democracy.

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

With any minority group, it takes a strong presence in the public eye to make a change because everything nowadays is social media.

I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations.

The moment I gave birth to my son, Eli, was the happiest in my life. He changed my world. My identity had always been shaped by my career - I thought of myself first as a physician and a public health official - but suddenly I thought of myself first, second, and third as a mother.

We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

Often, I'm up against both - position and money power. And yes, a system that needs to be more 'woman-friendly.' I believe these experiences will probably give birth to a more public life, where I can address the issues of women that need help in being heard, for I have understood what it is to be in that position.

I never wanted my private and public life to mix as much as they did when I got divorced.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.