“I guess I could say that I have lived my life in a perpetual flinch.” — Rakesh Satayal Copy Share Image
When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence. — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
When youth live in fear of becoming who they are, as adults, they can't become the creative beings that we are meant… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I grew up in south London and spent most of my adolescence in the snooker halls of the area, turning professional at 17. — Jimmy White Copy Share Image
“Every child makes its peace with abandonment. That's called growing up.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I'm most disturbed by the theory of rubber resilience in children; as if its much easier to bounce back with youth. I… — Zack W. Van Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t that the definition of adulthood? That you wanted one thing, but did another because you knew what was right and good,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as… — William James Copy Share Image
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days,… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal,… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
