In our culture, I think that there is no markers anymore. Young men don't really have something that says you're a grown up now, until you have a baby.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.
You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.