College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and… — Erik Paulsen Copy Share Image
For a long time in my adolescence, comedy was the only tool I had for communication and dealing with the world and… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then… — Bill Ayers 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
Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a… — David Sobel Copy Share Image
Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices.… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid.… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet,… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
“Of course, all animals have different things to learn while traversing the arc that takes them from sexually immature, vulnerable child to… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz 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
“...some adolescent survivors describe feeling special, powerful, and sometimes entitled. This is especially true of those for whom excessive attention was part… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“After all, growing up is nothing but an argument with your parents on the topic of whether or not you are grown.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“But there is something that’s a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That’s what it means… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my adolescence in Miami, where it was super humid, and my hair would get super frizzy, and… — Camila Mendes Copy Share Image
My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence,… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
“There are few physiques I loathe more than the heavy low-slung pelvis, thick calves and deplorable complexion of the average coed (in… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once… — Giddens Ko Copy Share Image
It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
“It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as those kind of girls who belonged to each other.… — Emma Cline 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
Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ...… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their… — Ari Shavit 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
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'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
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
“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