Quotes About Maturity

Simone de Beauvoir was of the opinion that if, at menopause, a woman gives her "consent" to growing older, she is changed into a "different being," one who is more herself, one who is complete.

Up till I was eight or so, I thought the grandeurs was a shitting sickness.

I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments

Once you're old enough to recognize a hole in yourself it's too late for the hole to be filled.

Children need to make mistakes and discover that it's not the end of the world. That's how they gain the confidence to try new things in life. Toxic parents impose unobtainable goals, impossible expectations, and ever-changing rules on their children. They expect their children to respond with a degree of maturity that can come only from life experiences that are inaccessible to a child. Children are not miniature adults, but toxic parents expect them to act as if they were.

I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence once lost, is lost forever.

Sometimes a book has its day and, although of course it does not change, the reader does, as a result of having read better things, or new tastes having come to the fore, or fashions in literature having moved on. Other novels seem to have improved, usually because we have matured as readers, our imaginations have expanded and we understand new literary approaches, sometimes because of life events which have opened us up to a new emotional awareness and understanding.

He loved his entire family, including his mother, but growing up with them had taught him that not every intimate detail needed to be shared. He hadn't wanted to know that his parents had enjoyed a new sexual technique the night before or that his sisters had their periods. He hadn't wanted to talk about his own sexual development or, back when he'd been a teenager, have his mother ask him, over breakfast, if he'd masturbated yet that day.

I'm not sure I'm the marrying kind. I don't even know if I want kids. I'm still at the keeping-a-plant alive stage of my life. Next, I'll consider getting a pet.

He was funny and charming, but also kind. It seemed the older she got, the more she appreciated kindness in people.

Did you tell him you love him? My mom says men have trouble with that sometimes because they're emotionally immature.

Growing up means realizing that no time of one's life is the best one, and resolving to savor every second of joy within reach. You know each will pass, and you no longer experience that as betrayal.

Negotiating small differences is part of being a grownup; no one can tell you in advance where to put your foot down.

Vitality is not the denial of mortality, but the grown-up way of facing it.

Given all the forces arrayed against it, no wonder Kant thought growing up to be more a matter of courage than knowledge: all the information in the world is no substitute for the guts to use your own judgement. And judgement can be learned — principally through the experience of watching others use it well —but it cannot be taught.

I know of no other woman who could learn to do so many things after 50 and to do them so well as you have.

She reflects on the girl she had been in this place, and the things she had to do in order to survive. For a long time, she'd had to live her child- hood backward, forced to step up and take charge of things that were thrust into her hands.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children." —Mignon McLaughlin

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.

Her own dolls were either babies or storybook characters like Cinderella and Snow White who though past childhood were somehow not yet into the world, girls who kept themselves apart from the world without really knowing what for. Now girls know what for. They menstruate when they are ten, and their dolls are sluts.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with us.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.