Meghan Daum Quotes

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

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

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.

Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.

I think Buffy was a grown-up. One of the amazing things about the show was that I was able to grow with her. Yes, she started in high school, and then she went to college, and then essentially she was a mother to all the other Slayers, so I always felt like Buffy was a grown-up.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.

It's so easy for 16-year-olds, including myself, to say, 'I just wish I were an adult.' But we can't wish our lives away. When we're adults, we'll say, 'I wish I were 16 again.'

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

When you're in high school, you can't even imagine the concept of what the rest of your life even means.

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.

Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself.

I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.