Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

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.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

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

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

I was very immature - who isn't at age 12? Let's be real. Once I kind of figured myself out and grew as a person, I now have a ton of different friends and learned who I was.

I'm not the same young man I was when I first got into music.

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

High school is really when I came into my own.

Growing as a man, I had to go through some stuff first. I had to figure this thing out, find out who I was as a player.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.