In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.
I'm excited for people to realize that I'm 25 years old and not a teenager anymore... even though I still look 18 and can't get into a bar to save my life!
I definitely wanted to be a woman and be treated as an adult, I wasn't interested in being young at all.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
Don't treat me like a little girl.
Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.
I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a place where, if you did your job, you weren't a kid - you were a full person worthy of respect from all the adults in the company.
