Definition of Puberty

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Puberty

The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

The period when a plant first bears flowers.

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Puberty Quotations

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
Germaine Greer

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.
Toni Morrison

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.
Dom DeLuise

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
Bob Geldof

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
George William Curtis

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.
Kelly Preston

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
Dennis Potter

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
Rick Springfield

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.
George Montgomery

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
Granville Stanley Hall

Puberty Translations

puberty in Afrikaans is puberteit
puberty in Dutch is puberteit
puberty in Spanish is pubertad
puberty in Swedish is pubertet

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