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'Adulting' will cover some topics that I, as a young woman, constantly think and worry about, so I hope others find it relatable -…

— Emily Atack

Adulting is hard.

— Kirstin Maldonado

“Adulting' can be boring. Sometimes we need to shock our systems by jumping in and committing to something, and worrying about the how part…

— Dana L. Ayers

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“She’d spent most of her twenties dreading becoming an adult, and all of her thirties waiting to feel like an adult. The day she’d…

— Lillianna Blake

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

— John D. MacDonald

“She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at…

— Barbara Pym

“Not being in the present moment is so adultish.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To be adult means, among other things, to see one’s own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.”

— Samuel H. Barondes

“She had the wild look of someone who hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like…

— Emma Straub

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the…

— Joe Hill

“she had discovered that ageing and what they called "maturity" were myths, that all the years did was disqualify you from various pleasures, one…

— Sebastian Faulks