Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

- Hanya Yanagihara

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

- Laura Marling

Maybe if I ever come to write about my teens and adulthood - and I can't imagine I will - but if I do, then maybe I will want to say a bit more about the ways in which my parents' relationship with one another impacted on me in later years.

- Kevin Crossley-Holland

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

- Kiki Smith

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

- Kate Thompson

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.

- John Darnielle

I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.

- Jenny Slate

Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?

- Jason Bateman

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

- Ira Sachs

Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

- Helen Fisher

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

- Bob Newhart

Adulthood is hell.

- H. P. Lovecraft

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

- Gretchen Rubin

I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seberg would make a great biopic. She was in Jean-Luc Godard's 'Breathless,' she played Joan of Arc. She had this eventful and traumatic adulthood, she thought the FBI was after her, and she became a darling of the French New Wave.

- Gillian Jacobs

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

- Germaine Greer

It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

- Gail Sheehy

I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

- Dan Byrd

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

- Damien Chazelle

You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.

- Catherynne M. Valente

I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.

- Beth Ditto