I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Was this adulthood? To wake up every day and know it would bring both good and bad? To do things you had… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may… — John Money Copy Share Image
I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school,… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
“We packed our trunks and suitcases, prepared for our natural and necessary moves away from home. Outwardly, we breathed sighs of relief… — Hannah Pittard Copy Share Image
It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
there is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to… — Mignon G. Eberhart Copy Share Image
“Some suggest that this cocoon mentality is behind recent campus trends such as "trigger warnings" to alert students that a reading or… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
The most important lesson I've learned is to not limit myself. Kids at my age often get intimidated by the idea of… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
I've been told that certain species of fish will grow according to the size of their environment. Put them in a tiny… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'" Rose chuckled. "But usually,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to… — Jena Malone Copy Share Image
If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly… — Rumer Godden 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
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
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
“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
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
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
Dont stop believing in what you want to be,just express yourself and your heart will set you free, dont let people stop… — Swaggs Copy Share Image
“A teenager who pretends to be an adult is still a teenager. If you imagine that getting high at a party and… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It… — Tavoris Cloud Copy Share Image
My hero in adulthood would be Michael Bryant, who's dead, bless him. His memory lives on. He was an actor at the… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
With my dad gone, I made a resolution to myself. I would become the man of the house. Adulthood was still more… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“...the changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
There's so much of our behavior that kind of curdles and hardens as we get into adulthood, and it becomes so much… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
