Julie Burchill Quotes

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

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.

When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.

With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones.

Being a teenager is complicated.

When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

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

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

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

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.

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

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

It's tough to be 12. You're not quite a man, but you think you are.

Mad World' hasn't dated because it's expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going crazy as you're leaving childhood. Your fingers are on the cliff and you're about to drop off, but somehow you cling on.

I think everybody had this weird mix of pubescent rage and sadness, and just pure mania and joy. It's a really weird time.

Puberty was definitely difficult for me.

This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.

On her daughter: And she's going through all these changes. You know, it's just crazy times.

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

I think I went through puberty. I'm, like, 20 now and I was, like, 17 then, ... You know, I've experienced different things and am having a lot more fun with it.

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.