“The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4” — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you… — Elizabeth Noble Copy Share Image
“Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds; parents need it to be able to get up… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Interesting, Miles thought. Like himself, Father Mark, as a child, had been reassured by the imagined proximity of God, whereas adults, perhaps… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seberg would make… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The art of adulthood is to develop self-confidence without arrogance. — Andrew Fuller Copy Share Image
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do; they save their best pairs for the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams.… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as… — Lionel Shriver 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
“How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until… — Kelly Williams Brown Copy Share Image
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered… — Will Self Copy Share Image
[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I tried to take a few community college classes, but it got in the way of music, so I stopped. I had… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image