Bloomer Quotes

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. ~ Sharon Olds

When you find a burden in belief or apparel, cast it off. ~ Amelia Bloomer

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that. ~ Mike Birbiglia

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me. ~ Ron Perlman

The thin end of the sensible clothes wedge had been inserted in society by the disgraceful Mrs Bloomer a decade and a half before the year of which I write; but that early attempt at the trouser suit had been comprehensively defeated by the crinoline--a small fact of considerable significance in our understanding of the Victorians. They were offered sense; and chose a six-foot folly unparalleled in the most folly-ridden of minor arts. ~ John Fowles

I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely. ~ Patti Smith

I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude. ~ Pete Wentz

I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band. ~ Yul Vazquez

I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done. ~ John Isner

Abandon the idea, Jeeves. I fear you have not studied the sex as I have. Missing her lunch means little or nothing to the female of the species. The feminine attitude toward lunch is notoriously airy and casual. Where you have made your bloomer is confusing lunch with tea. Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it. At such times the most amiable of the sex become mere bombs which a spark may ignite. Bertie Wooster ~ P.G. Wodehouse

Give a little party," she insisted. "Just a small affair. Nobody will dress. It's the anniversary of the founding of the Bloomer League - you didn't even remember that." "It's no use," said Tom. ~ John Steinbeck

It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay the work I had begun. I saw not the end from the beginning and dreamed where to my propositions to society would lead me, ~ Amelia Bloomer

She is often the broken-winged one, who does everything all wrong until people realize she's been doing it ... pretty right all along. She's the poor girl who never dressed right, who had torn hose, and they were all baggy around her ankles. She's the Raggedy Ann of the sophisticated world, who pulls it out at the last minute, flies by the seat of her pants, cackling all the way home. She is the late bloomer, the late start, the autumn bush, the winter holly. She is Baubo, all the classical Greek goddesses. She is the old girl who still blushes, and laughs, and dances. She's the truth teller, maybe that people hate to hear, but they learn to listen to. She is not dumb and in some ways is not shrewd. She works on passion, and the doll in her pocket, and the intuition that leads her into and through all the world. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women ~ Yip Harburg

I was a late bloomer. I'm not one of those girls who's like, "I love my body! Hey, everybody, come look at my body!" ~ Lizzy Caplan

I was a late bloomer. I was still naïve about what 16 year olds today have known for years. I remember sitting up and taking notice - of the world, my body, others - in a way never before experienced. I noticed boys, or rather they noticed me, at 16. ~ Chila Woychik

Dare to dream for, and then dare to ask for more. ~ Ariel Bloomer

I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age. ~ Salma Hayek

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer. ~ Tyler Blackburn

The most beautiful thing is that despite the shallow life we sometimes succumb to - the soul has no timeline and it knows what it wants and will yearn within until it seeks the journey ~ Malebo Sephodi

I guess I'm a late bloomer."
"I sure like you blooming with me, Bev. ~ Penny Watson

A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the dark ~ Criss Jami

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Simply being yourself is a powerful act of self-love. ~ Ariel Bloomer

I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade. ~ Paul Pierce

I'm a guy who has always been a late bloomer on every level. I've always wanted to get into the league as a kid. Who would have thought during my senior year at college that I would be where I am now? It's been a lot of hard work and never stopping. ~ Kevin Martin

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better. ~ Britta Phillips

I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records I've made over the years, I was finding my voice, and that's part of the process. ~ Jenny Lewis

I'm such a late bloomer. ~ Ang Lee

The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation of women, and make her the equal in power and dominion that she was in the beginning. ~ Amelia Bloomer

(About her age when her first poem was published...) As a poet, it's fair to say that I was a 'late bloomer.' My youngest had published two poems by the age of nine. Isn't that amazing? I was a little older when I saw my first poem in print -- almost 40 years older. Now my little boy is my editor, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm the only writer I know who used to burp her editor. ~ Donna J. Stone

Lots of famous people are late bloomers. My father says it's an advantage to be a late bloomer. Because when good things start happening, you're ready for it. ~ Candace Bushnell

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood. ~ Amelia Bloomer

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance ~ Amelia Bloomer

When I was in high school, I was a late bloomer. And just like all those supermodels who said they were gawky and no one liked them, that was me - metaphorically. And so I was ready to rise like a phoenix in later times. ~ Stephen Malkmus

Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience. ~ Stacy Keach

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.' ~ Ben Fountain

No one becomes a late bloomer doing something they hate. ~ J.M. Orend

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. ~ Sigourney Weaver

I was a superlate bloomer, and I was kind of a prude. I always wanted to be able to keep the number of people I've had sex with very low, because I never wanted to have to tell my future wife, "Oh, yeah, I was with 30 people." ~ Pete Wentz

Given that my first crush was a mythical centaur hybrid of Garrison Keillor and Ted Danson, you won't be surprised to learn that I was a late bloomer. There were other indicators, too, like my troll doll earring collection and the fact that I was naturally drawn to gorgeous best friends who transformed me, by comparison, into the homely sidekick (in troll doll earrings ~ Una LaMarche

It will not do to say that it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were so, then it should be also out of her sphere to submit to them. ~ Amelia Bloomer

Her take is that I'm just a late bloomer - that I'm taking forever to ruin my life, she's running out of patience. ~ Rainbow Rowell

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free ~ Amelia Bloomer

I was a late bloomer. ~ Alia Shawkat

Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change. ~ Amelia Bloomer

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children. ~ Daphne Zuniga

So what exactly does it mean to be a late bloomer? Simply put, a late bloomer is a person who fulfills their potential later than expected; they often have talents that aren't visible to others initially... And they fulfill their potential frequently in novel and unexpected ways, surprising even those closest to them. They are not attempting to satisfy, with gritted teeth, the expectations of their parents or society, a false path that leads to burnout and brittleness, or even to depression and illness... Late bloomers are those who find their supreme destiny on their own schedule, in their own way. ~ Rich Karlgaard

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?' ~ Mads Mikkelsen

In 'George Lopez', I played Veronica who's a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it's much easier for me to play that because I feel like a late bloomer. It wasn't difficult or challenging at all because it's not like I haven't been a teenager. ~ Aimee Garcia

The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting "Heil, Spode!" and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: "Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher? ~ P.G. Wodehouse

I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator. ~ David Foster Wallace

Being a late bloomer gives you a second chance at life. ~ Rhyme Devereux

You must understand that it is the will of God that all His children be blessed and in health. ~ George Bloomer

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer. ~ Christian Borle

Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer. ~ Xavier Dolan

I grew up in Indiana. I'm a late bloomer, very naive. ~ Arija Bareikis