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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. -- G. Stanley Hall
Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar. -- Rick Springfield
Puberty is the sickest joke God plays on us. So you're just noticing members of the sex: "Girls girls, ooo". Naturally you want to look your best, and God says "No! You will look the worst you've ever looked in your life!" -- Eddie Izzard
Puberty was definitely difficult for me. -- Mara Wilson
Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride. -- Claire Danes
Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar. -- Johnny Depp
Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years. -- Andrea Riseborough
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. -- Germaine Greer
Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. -- Toni Morrison
I could show you a picture right now where I look like something from The Hills Have Eyes. Talk about an awkward stage. Puberty was not good at all. -- Jacob Artist
No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything. -- Francine Pascal
Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky little kid to looking different, and I was really bummed because I loved acting. -- Jeff Cohen
Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee. -- Richard Simmons
Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas. -- Gary Paulsen
Puberty was definitely difficult for me. I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. You read Judy Blume and you think, "This is kind of cool." But when it actually started happening to me, I was terrified. -- Mara Wilson
I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby. -- Beth Ditto
Puberty was not kind to me. I had acne, eczema and had a stye in my eye, so it was quite hard to go in to somewhere where the majority were boys. At that age, they were quite vocal about what they thought of your looks. -- Sophie Wu
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. -- George William Curtis
I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high. -- Randy Houser
Karan Johar finally attained puberty at 42 -- Pooja Bhatt
Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery. -- Ambrose Bierce
The best things in life make you sweaty. -- Edgar Allan Poe
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work... -- Antonio Gramsci
It's hard enough to go through puberty. Everyone's embarassed about their youth, but if just happens that the '80s were particularly disgusting. Flock of Seagulls is not cool. -- Alyssa Milano
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late. -- Antonio Gramsci
There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way. -- Alvin Dark
As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter With my friends, I was still an extrovert. -- John Mulaney
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not. -- Aleister Crowley
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
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births. -- John Holdren
Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. -- Tim Cahill
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty. -- Suzi Quatro
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty. -- Tanya Roberts
Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets. -- Rick Springfield
When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty. -- Dom DeLuise
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined. -- Bob Geldof
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. -- Alison Gopnik
I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week. -- Park Chan-wook
Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent. -- Will Self
When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad. -- Park Chan-wook
I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind. -- Ben Barnes
As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter... With my friends, I was still an extrovert. -- John Mulaney
I just think that knowing about your body at any age, whether it's educating yourself on fertility, getting mammograms, going through puberty - whatever it may be, is really important. I just really encourage women empowerment and being comfortable talking about these issues. -- Khloe Kardashian
I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But when I went to high school, I was undersized. I didn't grow. I was behind the whole puberty cycle. I didn't like high school. -- Pete Carroll
You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic. -- Christoph Waltz
I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. 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. -- Brianna Brown
Internet is puberty of society. -- Mohit Parikh
I genuinely hit puberty before everyone. -- Emily Ratajkowski
I've weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet since puberty. -- Shenae Grimes
We are American at puberty. We die French. -- Evelyn Waugh
Becoming a comedienne was my way of adjusting to puberty. -- Phyllis Diller
When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed. -- Bo Burnham
When I reach puberty I'm definitely going to grow a beard. -- Max Beesley
If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty. -- Jacob M. Appel
Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first. -- Eoin Colfer
Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed. -- David Brin
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. -- Dennis Potter
Girls of 7, 8 or 9 years old are not emotionally or psychologically equipped to handle puberty. -- Joel Fuhrman
The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years. -- Robin Marantz Henig
I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. -- Mara Wilson
A team goes through stages of birth, childhood, puberty, adolescence, maturity, and aging in its development. -- Sunday Adelaja
Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone. -- Chris Pine
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined -- Bob Geldof
By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded. -- Russell Brand
Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities. -- Mia Wasikowska
I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty. -- Marge Piercy
I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day. -- Ryan Gosling
Hey, God made us sexual creatures. If he wanted teenagers to wait that long, he would have made puberty start at twenty-five. -- Natasha Friend
My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says. -- S.G. Browne
I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes. -- Victoria Legrand
I hated puberty. It had been that horrible stage from child hood, to pre teen, and my stage from ugly, to ugly with menstrual cramps. -- Melissa Grijalva
Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty. -- Ian Anderson
But puberty was... well, before puberty, at school, I didn't tell kids I was a transvestite 'cause I thought they might kill me with sticks, you know? -- Eddie Izzard
She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty. -- J. D. Salinger
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts. -- Linda Hunt
The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series. -- Pamela Adlon
I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis. -- George Montgomery
I think I went through puberty. I'm, like, 20 now and I was, like, 17 then, ... You know, I've experienced different things and am having a lot more fun with it. -- Fefe Dobson
If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty. -- Jamie Zawinski
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. -- Alison Bechdel
Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on. -- Katharine Isabelle
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
Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato -- Wendell Berry
No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything." -- Francine Pascal
The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other. -- Jennifer Lawrence
'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted. -- Lord Byron
Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged from puberty, realising that its Mother was right about everything. -- Angeline Trevena
I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me. -- Mara Wilson
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess. -- George Steiner
In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself. -- Gavin Hood
I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice. -- Willie Geist
Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty. -- Peggy Orenstein
I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.' -- Mara Wilson

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