We don’t do all our growing up between birth and…

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but…

— Harold Bloom

Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the…

— Jane Ridley

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

— Ian Mcewan

When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove…

— Kate Christensen

I think most of my childhood, adolescence, and teenage years, I was struggling to feel validated - which led to a lot of my…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and…

— Margaret Atwood

“Yet GenX'er teens didn't slow down--they were just as likely to drive, drink alcohol, and date as their Boomer peers and more likely to…

— Jean M. Twenge

Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth…

— Bill Henson

I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was…

— Winona Ryder

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

— G. Stanley Hall

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

— Amity Shlaes

The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

— Molly Ivins

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

— Bob Phillips

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

— Ben Shapiro

They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence…

— Ari Shavit