Quotes About Transition

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

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.

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

I definitely enjoyed it and I am glad I did university - four years of not being in the public eye - and I met all my best friends doing it, so I am definitely glad it happened.

My family is in business since long. No one has been in the entertainment industry and in the public eye. So, it was a great deal for me to get into.

I learned everything along the way. I only performed five times before I was in the public eye.

When you're growing up in the public eye, it's hard to go from a girl into a woman in front of everyone.

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

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.

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

I spent a few years after college as a Boston public school teacher and I loved it. But I was never committed to it, committed to it as a career.

I went to public school up until junior high.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

I started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

Growing up in Houston I did go through the public school system. I went to Parker Elementary, Johnston Junior High and Westbury Senior High.

Before I was in the Senate, I was a superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, and before that, I was in business.

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine.

I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I'm on loan to public service.

I may be leaving the Senate, but the next chapter in my public service is just beginning.