Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ...… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their… — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music].… — Aaron Brookner Copy Share Image
Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars,… — Mary Ellen Snodgrass Copy Share Image
“We talk about the disappointments of early adolescence - the betrayals by friends, the discovery that one is not beautiful by cultural… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white bread twice a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“When I was in junior high, I used to think I would turn out to be one of the guys, and boys… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From my window I watched the full moon—a moon that reminded me of Brett—become shadowed, little by little until there was only… — Irene Hunt Copy Share Image
“The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was… — Richard Mason Copy Share Image
It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“How we diminished her and in turn ourselves. Turned parts of her body into heavy burdens to carry. Watching. Tittering (we no… — Rion Amilcar Scott Copy Share Image
There have been times in my adolescence where I gave up. I was like, 'I'm just never going to be pretty. I'm… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
“In idyllic small towns I sometimes see teenagers looking out of place in their garb of desperation, the leftover tatters and stains… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
To wear stays forces you into the elegant, balletic posture of a Georgian minuet-dancer. As with the tight-lacing, there is still great… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a country where… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says “I am,” and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront… — Mike A. Males Copy Share Image
“The drone in my ear, it’s like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch the town go… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
One thing that happens often times in family life is that people think maybe the challenge you are having with a child… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I do think we're in a period of time culturally where there is just this extraordinary connection that we have to our… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
The average age in the U.S. is now thirty-three, whereas Mexico gets younger and younger, retreats deeper and deeper into adolescence. Mexico… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
![“It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to deal with it. Parents who send their [adolescent] daughters the message that they'll be overwhelmed by problems aren't likely to hear what's really happening.” quote by Mary Pipher](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/338/mary-pipher-10060_adolescence_it-s-important-for-parents-to-watch-for_2501195.jpg)
![“In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his…” quote by Aaron Brookner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d47/aaron-brookner-54373_academy_in-adolescence-i-started-to-find-out-abo_2140691.jpg)
