Action Quote by Lord Byron

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

— Alison Gopnik

“When people are kids their parents teach them all sorts of stuff, some of it true and useful, some of it absurd hogwash (example…

— David James Duncan

“There are social struggles, and the agonies and embarrassments of puberty...and the weight of the world that falls upon each of us in varying…

— Claire Messud

“When a boy… discovers that he is more given into introspection and consciousness of self than other boys his age, he easily falls into…

— Yukio Mishima

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

After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children…

— Antonio Gramsci

What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an…

— Kurt Hahn

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

— Jacob M. Appel

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

— Kate Bush

I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

— Melina Marchetta

“It [puberty] is not that you lose control of your body so much as that you lose control over the way your body is…

— 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