Barbara Park Quotes

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

It's very bizarre to me to now really be a grown-up. I kind of can't believe that I'm there because I certainly don't feel that way a lot of the time.

There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I felt different at 29 because 29, to me, is 30. There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I was way behind in my maturity. I was a 30-year-old acting like a 23-year-old. So when I was 21, I was probably acting like a 15-year-old.

I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.

As a person, you like to see young men mature.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

I'm totally growing up.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.