Adolescence is a skin we never quite shed.

My skin is quite thick now.

— Tony Adams

I don't like to wear a lot of makeup because my skin is quite sensitive.

— Samara Weaving

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

— Rita Mae Brown

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

“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why…

— Joe Hill

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

— Toni Morrison

Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of…

— Laurence Steinberg

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

Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

— Chris Hogan

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

Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth living. School…

— Mary Pipher

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