Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence. — Luciana Berger 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
Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
“I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of me standing back, watching, thinking,… — Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Share Image
Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
I sort of found King Diamond in second grade, but I didn't become a devoted Satanist until a few years later, but… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
The average age in the U.S. is now thirty-three, whereas Mexico gets younger and younger, retreats deeper and deeper into adolescence. Mexico… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I made a film about adolescence and what going through it is like for a specific group of girls. Adolescence is always… — Linda Goldstein Knowlton Copy Share Image
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“I can still remember what I was like when I was sixteen. It was hell to be that excited. Then as now,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
“As sexual power is learned by adolescent boys through the social experience of their sex drive, so do girls learn that the… — Kathleen L. Barry Copy Share Image
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we our given, is our society. Your education, and your… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
To wear stays forces you into the elegant, balletic posture of a Georgian minuet-dancer. As with the tight-lacing, there is still great… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
The problem with being the baby of the family, is that I have zero say in music? There was no point in… — Alana Haim Copy Share Image
“All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged." "Every teenager in the world feels… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
