Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine. ”

Chrissie Hynde is the blueprint for any teenage pop star wannabe looking to have some real cred. ”

I'm coming out of a long term marriage and I don't want to jump into anything too serious or too much, too quick. ”

When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too. ”

My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'. ”

In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on. ”

There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now.' ”

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?' ”

Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way. ”

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other. ”