You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults… — Erma Bombeck 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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence.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
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior. — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence. — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
