C. S. Lewis Quotes

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

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

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

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

Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.

I've done a lot of growing up and realized a lot of things.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

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

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

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.

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

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.