Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
“Mary could be as sullen or rebellious as anyone on occasion, but she never achieved the glorious abandon with which Angela simply… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
“Being an adult isn't an excuse to do whatever you want. Being an adult is the duty of having no one else… — Keri Sparks Copy Share Image
I'd say I'm drawn to characters that ring true to me. Adolescence is a troubled time for everyone, so a lot of… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is an earthquake, one that feels like it will never end while you're living it, and eventually there comes a choice.… — Daniel Barnett Copy Share Image
Looking back at that now I shudder at my naivety: while 'Men Behaving Badly' remains a brilliant sitcom, how did I ever… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
“So, girl, you learn to deal with what gets handed down t’you. To grow up means you be honest with y’self. Face… — Marilyn Brant Copy Share Image
Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and… — Elizabeth Enright Copy Share Image
“Peter never wore underwear, Connie had complained, and the fact grew in my mind, making me nauseous in a not unpleasant way.… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“But it was something else, too, that I wanted to extend: the taut and pleasant silence in the car, the stale heat… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“For teenagers who struggle with these skills, more trouble lies ahead as the tasks in life become more complicated and more demanding… — Richard Guare Copy Share Image
In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a… — David Sobel Copy Share Image
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid.… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices.… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“But there is something that’s a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That’s what it means… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my adolescence in Miami, where it was super humid, and my hair would get super frizzy, and… — Camila Mendes Copy Share Image
Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once… — Giddens Ko Copy Share Image
My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
“There are few physiques I loathe more than the heavy low-slung pelvis, thick calves and deplorable complexion of the average coed (in… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence,… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as those kind of girls who belonged to each other.… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
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