Marcel Proust Quotes

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

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.

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

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

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

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

I'm totally growing up.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

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

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

I'm going to hang out with people, and I'm going to explore myself, and I'm okay with that.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.