Body-politic Quote by Carina Chocano

Puberty is such a confusing time. You are still a child, with all that wonderful naivete and innocence, but your body is changing, and…

— Maimouna Doucoure

No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you -…

— Francine Pascal

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this…

— Lord Byron

There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through…

— Sufjan Stevens

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

— Andrea Riseborough

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one…

— Katharine Isabelle

When I heard that our bodies change when we get a bit older, I thought, oh good, now I'll go back to being a…

— Tenzin Palmo

“For girls who've been pressured into sex they didn't want, growing into a woman's body can be terrifying. Anorexia and bulimia can be an…

— Ellen Bass

Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]

— Sex And The City

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was…

— Mandy Moore