You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is…

“You don't have to suffer to be a poet”

— John Ciardi

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and…

— Arthur Miller

“What is adolescence without trash?”

— Evelyn Waugh

From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.

— Rachel Simmons

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