Famous quotes containing the words onset, conduct and/or disorder:
“While the onset of puberty can vary by as much as six years, every adolescent wants to be right on the 50-yard line, right in the middle of the field. One is always too tall, too short, too thin, too fat, too hairy, too clear-skinned, too early, too late. Understandably, problems of self-image are rampant.”
—Joan Lipsitz (20th century)
“Like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“I have come back
but disorder is not what it was.
I have lost the trick of it!
The innocence of it!”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)