Shailene Woodley Quotes

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

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.

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

Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

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

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'

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

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

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

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

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

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

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

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.

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

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

I think that as a young lady, you start off not knowing what you want to do, and then you kinda arrive at yourself by the time you're 17 or 18, hopefully. And that's what I did.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.