Kelly Rutherford Quotes

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

Being a teenager is complicated.

I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still hated high school. It's just a rough, rough period in one's life.

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn't socially relating to people.

I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.

As I got into high school I sort of came into my own and gained some confidence and, luckily, wasn't really bullied by others.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And you don't yet ­understand that it will all go away.

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

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.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.