I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason,… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just… — Gerry Boyle Copy Share Image
The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's… — Dumitru Tepeneag 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 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
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious… Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Cut privet still smells of sour apples, as it did when I was sixteen; but this is a rare, lingering exception. At… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I couldn't understand how boldness and sorrow, how you're so hard and do you really care for me? could be so thoroughly… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Yet GenX'er teens didn't slow down--they were just as likely to drive, drink alcohol, and date as their Boomer peers and more… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I… — John Berger Copy Share Image
At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of… — Mustafa Ali Copy Share Image
“The wild girl is with me always; she is my rage and my hunger, and if I live what passes for a… — Mary Stewart Atwell Copy Share Image
The idea that everyone in their lives has played a video game is becoming more acceptable to the general audience. Now we… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“It was a major and deeply embarrassing teenage revelation. It must be how straight teenage boys feel when they realize those boobs… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world… — Mitski Copy Share Image
The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any… — Thomm Quackenbush 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
“Being an adult isn't an excuse to do whatever you want. Being an adult is the duty of having no one else… — Keri Sparks Copy Share Image
I'd say I'm drawn to characters that ring true to me. Adolescence is a troubled time for everyone, so a lot of… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is an earthquake, one that feels like it will never end while you're living it, and eventually there comes a choice.… — Daniel Barnett Copy Share Image
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