Oh, she thought, how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!
Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.
I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up. 'Vogue,' what is that?'
My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother w...
When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endles...
Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away fo...
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters an...
I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.
Sometimes or most of the times, we need to remind ourselves that we're not a KID anymore.
Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfill. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try,...
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a far...
It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Drag...
When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.
Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.
I don't really enjoy it, Mom.""And you've always felt this way?""I don't know. I guess I want a break.
Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she w...
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
I was seeing something I didn’t understand and did not want to. No I wasn’t. I was seeing something I had always understood and wanted to understand better.