Nora Ephron Quotes

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

When you're a teenager, a year can be crippling to maneuver through. Some things happen when you're like 13. All of a sudden you go from being this really confident, no-worry little kid to having all these weird insecurities for no reason.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

I went through my awkward teenage years. I don't want to go back.

I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

I was this very self-conscious, shy person once I hit my teens.

In school, I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into.

Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls.

When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

My awkward stage extended well into high school.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

Part of being young is you think gaining 6 lbs. is the end of the world.

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

When I was a teenager, I was super-awkward. I don't think I really felt comfortable in my body or with how I looked, and people were nasty.

I was the awkward, shy chick in high school.

I had curly hair, braces, pimples - you talk about going through puberty and the worst things that go with it, I had it, for sure. And then I had a bottom retainer, so my lisp was really bad. I still have a minor one when I get really excited.

I'm 16, and I'm still self-conscious. Everyone is at this age.

No one escapes the teenage years without a lot of challenges. I had many. I was awkward. Petrified of boys.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in the eye. It was not a good time for me - it just killed my self-esteem. I thought when I didn't look at someone, they couldn't see my face.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.