Odors from decaying food wafting through the air when the door is opened, colorful mold growing between a wet gym uniform and… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Ordinarily during the stage of your life when you're going through your adolescence and you're completely awkward and uncomfortable, the rest of… — Tina Majorino Copy Share Image
“He picks up speed and seems to lose his gangliness, the slouchy funk of hormones and unbelonging and all the stammering things… — Don Delillo Underworld Copy Share Image
“Many parents have experienced the fact that kids don’t seem to honor their parents the way that previous generations of children did.… — Fiona Dimas-Herd Copy Share Image
Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet,… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“Everybody else going through the terror and joy of their first crushes, their first dates, their first kisses while Oscar sat in… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course, all animals have different things to learn while traversing the arc that takes them from sexually immature, vulnerable child to… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“...some adolescent survivors describe feeling special, powerful, and sometimes entitled. This is especially true of those for whom excessive attention was part… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless,… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
“After all, growing up is nothing but an argument with your parents on the topic of whether or not you are grown.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Something about the turbulence of adolescence makes you want to do something creative...I thought as I got older I would stop writing… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
Of all the restaurants I visited in my childhood and adolescence, it was Michel Bras that I remembered most vividly and it… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“As sexual power is learned by adolescent boys through the social experience of their sex drive, so do girls learn that the… — Kathleen L. Barry Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Twisting the nipple so I inhaled audibly, and he hesitated for a moment but kept going. His dick smearing at my bare… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four as… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults.… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“Sadness at that age had the pleasing texture of imprisonment: you reared and sulked against the bonds of parents and school and… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
