Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

I was born in Rocky Mount, NC. The town of 24,000 proved a great place to spend the first 17 years of life. But, after that, onward, outward.

I grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn't wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York.

I moved to San Francisco when I was 20 years old. I couldn't even drink yet. My friends in college thought I was so stupid for missing out on the four best years of my life. But I was so ready to start living my own life and absorb Silicon Valley culture.

For anyone who's had a transition in their life - heading off to college, parents sending their kids off to college, people getting out of college and heading off into the workforce. Those are major transitions.

It was a big step for me in the Netherlands: to leave home at the age of 18.

I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.

I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.

I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.

I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home, getting jobs.

How do we escape who we are? I think, going to college, I felt freer. I loved the clean slate. I wasn't known as the sort of nerdy, studious girl. I met gay people for the first time in my life. I needed that expansion from a very conservative little town.

I didn't get to experience proper autumn until I was eighteen and heading off to college on the East Coast!

I think turning 30 - and same with turning 21, 25, or turning 18 - those are moments in life where something new is expected of you, or you expect something new from yourself.

Graduating from college and starting your life as an adult is a giant transition no matter what.

You go through so many changes, especially in your twenties.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.