J. K. Rowling Quotes

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.

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

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

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

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

I've kind of stepped into my femininity.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

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 came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.

It's interesting because, even with 'Beetlejuice,' I was an awkward kid. I started at puberty and went through it on film. Lydia was one of my favorite roles because I related to her a lot.

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

I still feel like a girl. I don't quite feel like a woman. I'll probably be 90 and feel like, 'Not a woman yet!'

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.

I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.

I enjoyed being a teenager.

I was a girl with freckles and grew into a young woman a little bit more quickly, with hips and thighs.

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

When you're growing up in the public eye, it's hard to go from a girl into a woman in front of everyone.

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

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.