“Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world… — Mitski Copy Share Image
Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn't know the words to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
“The presence of females was oppressive to them all. It seemed to them that lately the world was full of girls. Everywhere… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity,… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
“Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, or private imaginings taken… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Kelly and I saw a future (otherwise known as the sixth grade) in which we would remain invisible and unchanged while around… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about.… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“Through the trees there was a motion, a person walking on the road. Isabelle watched as the girl - it was Amy… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“I feel strange...I really don't know what I am. In mind I'm almost a woman, in body a young woman. I am… — Maya Morrow Copy Share Image
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
I know exactly what that movie's [Brokeback mountain] about. I can't define it; it doesn't tie up in a perfect bow. But… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I love '80s happy music. I love Cyndi Lauper and Madonna, and the idea of making music that's about people celebrating fun.… — Halsey Copy Share Image
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“I've had a great deal of experience with adolescents over the centuries, and I've discovered that as a group these awkward half… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving… — Jay Nichols Copy Share Image
The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest… — Alante Kavaite Copy Share Image
“Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial!… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
“Most adults assume that the feelings of adolescence don't count, somehow, and that those searing passions of rage and hate and embarrassment… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those… — Kelly Williams Brown Copy Share Image