Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger. — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
At 17, 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
“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
“Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment… — Bill Bryson 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
But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited. — Jonathan Ke Quan Copy Share Image
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually… — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white bread twice a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions. — Mary Tyler Moore 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
Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ...… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I think there's so much to play in adolescence; there's so many conflicting things happening and so many changes, and there's just… — Alexis Bledel Copy Share Image
“But it was something else, too, that I wanted to extend: the taut and pleasant silence in the car, the stale heat… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
It is an odd fact that what we now know of the mental and emotional life of infants surpasses what we comprehend… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
