Eve Babitz Quotes

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

I think that I've always been a normal kid.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.

I've got some growing up to do.

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

High school is really when I came into my own.

It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

I kind of grew up and started maturing.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.