Robin Wright Quotes

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

High school is really when I came into my own.

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

When I did 'Fast Times,' I felt very close emotionally to the characters. I liked those characters because they all had to work, so they were dealing with adult problems even though they were very immature, and I could relate to that.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

I'm a woman now.

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.

Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

I read Jilly Cooper when I was on the verge of just growing up and I was becoming a woman.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

Guys like me, we have a different style that makes it hard to break in easily. When I was 18, 19, I felt like I was just a boy, body-wise and mentality-wise. I had to fix everything together.

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

In your twenties, you're trying to figure out who you are: making mistakes, wanting to be sexy, growing up as a woman.

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.