“Oh, he's a sweet thing and I love him so--and I love life--and everything's beautiful!” — Cornelia Spelman Copy Share Image
Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us? — John Irving Copy Share Image
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Being an adult means knowing you can have cake for every meal, but choosing not to have cake for every meal because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I was in therapy for six years and then stopped. You get hardwired at adolescence, like a caterpillar that pupates and re-assembles… — Grayson Perry 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
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“Egalitarian and relativistic sentiments find steady support among ever new generations of adolescents. Owing to their still incomplete mental development, juveniles, especially… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe 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
“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
Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was… — Stephen Chbosky 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
Odors from decaying food wafting through the air when the door is opened, colorful mold growing between a wet gym uniform and… — Barbara Coloroso 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
I do think we're in a period of time culturally where there is just this extraordinary connection that we have to our… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
One thing that happens often times in family life is that people think maybe the challenge you are having with a child… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party. — Don Henley 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
Going through adolescence looking like a hormone experiment wasn't easy. — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“I met Baba Yaga at the end of childhood – past pigtails and fairytales, but not quite ready to give up on make-believe.” — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
“The trick to being an adult is maintaining that childlike wonder while still managing to do soul-killing things like paying bills.” — Katee Robert Copy Share Image
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
Obviously I went through my adolescence on national TV, but it's great looking back. — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Growing up is hard enough. When you have to deal with adults all day, it's just that much more difficult. — Cris Collinsworth Copy Share Image
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children? — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Growing up sucks. Or maybe its just making hard decisions that will define the rest of your life. So unsure... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.” — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
