“The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4” — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly — Hank Green Copy Share Image
“Most adults have dropped out of the school of life before they reached adulthood.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The only time a lady should be in a hospital because of a man is because of giving birth, not because of… — Ong Lor Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door. — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood! — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet,… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
“We recall that to the Cherokee, as to other people who have noticed how long it sometimes takes for humans to develop… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing. — J W Jepson Copy Share Image
“I divide my life into two parts. Not really a Before and After, more as if they are bookends, holding together flaccid… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance.… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“Only in adulthood can any intelligent understanding of the meaning of one's existence in this world be gained from one's experiences in… — Bruno Bettleheim Copy Share Image
“We were grown-ups, yet still children, and yet neither, stuck in that space between infancy and adulthood, confusing and murky, where some… — Linda Kage Copy Share Image
The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
“Adults have the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct. When we “grow… — Alberto Alvaro Ríos Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body.… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“He welcomes the chance to do fatherly things with the little girl, and those ten morning minutes with dear little four-year-old Ruby,… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
“This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“You can't guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi” — Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team Copy Share Image
