Amy Heckerling Quotes

My mom said the term heavy petting existed a lot when she was in high school.

The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.

People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.

We weren't doing blow jobs when I was growing up.

It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school.

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

It's like letting little children watch the sex act.

When you're 19, a threesome is normal. It's fun.

I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that... I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.

I was never told a thing about sex. So I was very naive, as were my friends as well. But I - me so especially.

If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

When I went to school, sex education was mainly muttered warnings about the janitor.

When I was younger, I used to be the cheater. But I'm not talking about going all the way.... I wasn't doing that in high school! I'd have boyfriends and then spring break would come around and I'd be a little bit naughty.

Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.

I wouldn't want to promote teenage girls having sex. But the reality is, it's happening, and they're just a little too young to understand how careful they need to be. That's a big battle with me, because I'm 23, and a lot of my fans are eight years younger than I am, so there's a bit of a tug-of-war there. I want to set the right example and, at the same time, live my life.

There are statistics out that say 20 year olds, 18 years olds think about sex 90 percent of the time. They only don't think about sex when they're eating, and that's rare.

We're exposing our minors to abuse by the fact that they leave the radio on in the car and let them listen to the news on the way to school. Or the fact that it's shown on the news, the children can see Gaddafi's face and his glorious Technicolor clothes getting shot off on the news or on the newspaper shelves. In the shelves of the shops where all the sex magazines are consciously put at the top, if they're consciously put at the top, that must mean the violence is all put at the bottom consciously.

Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

I'm sure kids had masturbated by sixth grade. I had for sure.

I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying. Which I am not recommending teenagers do if they read this.

Sex is still the leading cause of pregnancy.

I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

Maybe it's just L.A., but [high school girls] look like men, like they would have kids and s - t.

I'm afraid that, in this chapter we must talk about sex in a very explicit manner, because we want to expand the Frontiers of Human Understanding and also we want to sell as many books as possible to adolescent boys.