Catherine Oxenberg Quotes

I've never really been a rebellious teen.

I had a reputation in high school for making trouble.

At 18, I was attracted to bad boys.

I think I'm trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

Yeah, I probably got in too much trouble as a youth to be a politician.

When the other girls had given up their Barbies, I was still playing with mine in secret.

I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

During and shortly after puberty human beings have an indubitable tendency to loosen their allegiance to all traditional rites and social norms of their culture

… she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

I did fine in school. School was cool until I started personally rebelling.

With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones.

I was probably the only kid in school that had long hair.

You could never be an adolescent if you don't look like one.

So a part of you is broken when that’s gone. And part of you wants to have that rebellious feeling where you’re just like, forget it — I can do anything I want. I’ve tried it, and I’ve never been that girl. I’m always going to be the girl you want to take home to your parents, not for the night.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

What's most insidious about MTV is that it commodifies precisely those things that young people believe are subversive. In other words, subversity itself has become a commodity. It's all a way to trick young people into believing that there's something unique about what they do, but this is all completely a corporately designed maneuver.

Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.