Dove Cameron Quotes

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

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.

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s.

I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.

I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.

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

It's one huge arc right until you're in your early 20s. You're always changing and always learning, but it's very much that chapter in your life: fall crazy in love, become extremely angry at little things. It's a tumultuous time.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

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.

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

I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.