Quotes about Puberty

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"Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea."- G. Stanley Hall

"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

"By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded."- Russell Brand

"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."- Rick Springfield

"What war has always been is a puberty ceremony."- Kurt Vonnegut

"I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty."- Tanya Roberts

"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

"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

"Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery."- Ambrose Bierce

"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

"If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty."- Jacob M. Appel

"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

"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

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

"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 went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day."- Ryan Gosling

"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

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