Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

I hate how people say I'm growing up fast.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

One should mature over 20 years.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

You can't be 16 forever.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

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

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we'd like to think, from 20 to 30.

You can't be 25 all the time.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

You can't be a 25-year-old forever.

It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

Some age, others mature.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are.