Cheryl Ladd Quotes

Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

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

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

I'd like to give people the hope and help I didn't have and that I had to learn by myself.

Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.

So much changes in a year when you're a teenager.

Give now. Somewhere, someone feels crappy. You can help.

Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

When you're 13, you're still trying to figure out your style.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

I've never been a 16-year-old girl.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

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.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

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