Away from home Quote by Tessa Dare

When a child has a dream and a parent says, "It's not financially feasible; you can't make a living at that; don't do it,"…

— Esther Hicks

I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was kicked out…

— George Carlin

“For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be…

— Walter Benjamin

“In striving to fulfill our identities as women, it's important not to confound the various passages of life with each other. What we may…

— Erica Jong

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

— George Eliot

Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s…

— Bell Hooks

“The whistle buried under my skin and became a permanent part of me. I had a radar for certain eyes afterward. It was a…

— Deb Caletti

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

— Louise Imogen Guiney

Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must take a…

— Rachel Simmons

“Even as you kept telling me that I'm becoming a woman, you never let me go out into the world to be free.”

— Ibi Zoboi

I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“From 'Periodic Table of Elements': A girl ago, a girlhood gone like a phial of ether | Thrown on fire--just | A little jump…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

“Mama once told me before she died that my blonde hair makes the sun go wild with envy.”

— Kyle Labe

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive…

— Ilka Chase