Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Twisting the nipple so I inhaled audibly, and he hesitated for a moment but kept going. His dick smearing at my bare… — Emma Cline 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
Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
Of all the restaurants I visited in my childhood and adolescence, it was Michel Bras that I remembered most vividly and it… — Dominique Crenn 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
Up until the age of 13, girls are confident, and they feel like they can conquer the world. Then adolescence sets in,… — Joanna Coles Copy Share Image
Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued… — John Aldridge Copy Share Image
“Later, at the sink in our van, Mama rinsed the blue stain and the odd spiders, caterpillars, and stems from the bucket.… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I think Los Angeles certainly grew out and grew up, but I don't think it matured. It lost the appeal and the… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Now that adolescence is accessible to the multitude and not restricted to gentlemen and lords, many adults are taking alarm at what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I intentionally leave adults out in my stories, not to say that they're not in charge or that they don't care, or… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
It is an odd fact that what we now know of the mental and emotional life of infants surpasses what we comprehend… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn’t wait to be a teenager and go to high… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
I grew up in a largely black community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk,… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“Why can’t you just be yourself?” Stella asked once. “Maybe I don’t know who that is,” her daughter shot back. And Stella… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“They didn't have very far to fall - I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez 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
Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It is in adolescence that most of us grasp that life--our own life--is a problem to be solved, that a set of… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars,… — Mary Ellen Snodgrass Copy Share Image
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“We talk about the disappointments of early adolescence - the betrayals by friends, the discovery that one is not beautiful by cultural… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“But it was something else, too, that I wanted to extend: the taut and pleasant silence in the car, the stale heat… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“For teenagers who struggle with these skills, more trouble lies ahead as the tasks in life become more complicated and more demanding… — Richard Guare Copy Share Image
