The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.
I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.
I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.
I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.
I don't pass judgment on anybody, but personally, I prefer a more natural look. I think it's helping my longevity in my career because I'm playing my age.
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.
I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.
Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.
At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.
I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
