Andrea Riseborough 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.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

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.

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 is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

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

Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.

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

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 think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

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.

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

Puberty was definitely difficult for me.

It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

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

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

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

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