A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you. — John Irving Copy Share Image
An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“I guess I could say that I have lived my life in a perpetual flinch.” — Rakesh Satayal 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
If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life. — Donna Rice Hughes Copy Share Image
“But I could not fully admit it, even then. The way Suzanne's face looked as she watched him - I wanted to… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial!… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
“For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn't know the words to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . .… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Mary could be as sullen or rebellious as anyone on occasion, but she never achieved the glorious abandon with which Angela simply… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know,… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that… — Roman Payne 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
Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
