“We push off the ground and break into a run. It is not a race, it’s just running. All we need to… — Sohn Won-Pyung Copy Share Image
“What season?” I asked. “A delayed adolescence, I guess. When I get up in the morning and see my face in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience,… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
“I feel strange...I really don't know what I am. In mind I'm almost a woman, in body a young woman. I am… — Maya Morrow Copy Share Image
I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“Through the trees there was a motion, a person walking on the road. Isabelle watched as the girl - it was Amy… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Kelly and I saw a future (otherwise known as the sixth grade) in which we would remain invisible and unchanged while around… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about.… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
“Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, or private imaginings taken… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in… — Jerry O'Connell Copy Share Image
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I sort of found King Diamond in second grade, but I didn't become a devoted Satanist until a few years later, but… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“The drinking, the skipping school – all of it – was about regaining some sort of control. That night I felt there… — Sasha Martin Copy Share Image
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is not a period of being “crazy” or “immature.” It is an essential time of emotional intensity, social engagement, and creativity.” — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually… — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
![“I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys - from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years; there were only…” quote by Winona Ryder](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/666/winona-ryder-1469_adolescence_i-remember-realizing-when-i-did-little-w_41784.jpg)
