“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
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
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
“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
The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage,… — Kenneth E. Boulding 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
“I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Another reason for the increased self-centeredness of an adolescent is her susceptibility to humiliation. This brazen, defiant creature is also something tender,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I may have smiled to myself as I watched the familiar pattern of the town pass, the bus cruising through shade to… — Emma Cline 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
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
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
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
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
“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
