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
“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
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
“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
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood,… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the… — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
For me the breakthrough was the realization that I wasn't the center of the universe or even the centre of my own… — Shaun Micallef Copy Share Image
“I remember everything,' Bette Midler flatly notes. 'But you know how in life, you tend to hold grudges? Well, I don’t do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
“We were girls, you see, not even women, just girls, most of us when we started. And the boys were just boys,… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking,… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What we rarely see receive is a picture of adulthood that represents it as the ideal it should be. (...) What better… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“Other cultures make a clear delineation between childhood and adulthood; there are rites of passages and initiation ceremonies to mark these transitions.… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
“ADULTHOOD, NORMA BELIEVED, is about giving back and passing lessons on to the next generation, so that the virtues you work so… — Erika Hayasaki Copy Share Image
After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He considered himself, and the way he moved in reaction, like a pinball, from one thing to the next, as he was… — Laleh Khadivi Copy Share Image
When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own… — Ashley Ormon Copy Share Image
Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood.… — Bart Hopkins Copy Share Image
I wasn't remotely ambivalent about marrying the person I was marrying, but I was 35. I was deep into my adulthood, and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling… — Sally Field Copy Share Image
'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Youth is a gift that goes largely unappreciated by its proprietor. Like a single raindrop falling on hot pavement it evaporates before… — Rob Wood Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
