I think Los Angeles certainly grew out and grew up, but I don't think it matured. It lost the appeal and the… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority. — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence. — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront… — Mike A. Males Copy Share Image
Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“For as long as I could remember, I had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing, most of every day. Now I… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Let's just give her a ride into town," Suzanne said. She spoke briskly, like I was a mess that needed to be… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality… — Barry D. Adam Copy Share Image
The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the… — Jeanne Elium Copy Share Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin'… — Moms Mabley Copy Share Image
There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
When the boomers started to have kids reach adolescence, there was suddenly this feeling that they needed to protect their kids from… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
