Adolescence Quotes · Page 9

From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.

— Rachel Simmons

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.

— John Irving

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even…

— Aretha Franklin

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

— John Irving

“He'd obviously spent his college years refining the art of adolescence...”

— Jenifer LeClair

she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.

— Paulo Coelho

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

— Anonymous

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

— Celine Sciamma

“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude…

— Joe Hill

I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have…

— Bat for Lashes

I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who,…

— Stephen Metcalf

Childhood was definitely my most formative time in terms of my creative self. My adolescence was very much the dark years. I…

— Julio Torres

“the “work” of adolescence—the testing of boundaries, the passion to explore what is unknown and exciting—can set the stage for the development…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“No-one had ever looked at me before Suzanne, not really, so she had become my definition. Her gaze softening my centre so…

— Emma Cline

adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same…

— Grace Zaring Stone

Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood…

— Jacqueline Woodson

When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots…

— Milan Kundera

“Kelly and I saw a future (otherwise known as the sixth grade) in which we would remain invisible and unchanged while around…

— Monique Truong

I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about.…

— Winona Ryder

“Through the trees there was a motion, a person walking on the road. Isabelle watched as the girl - it was Amy…

— Elizabeth Strout

I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and…

— Maia Szalavitz

One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, or private imaginings taken…

— Naomi Wolf

“The presence of females was oppressive to them all. It seemed to them that lately the world was full of girls. Everywhere…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

— Caitlin Flanagan

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

— John D. MacDonald

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

— Uwe Reinhardt

Going through adolescence looking like a hormone experiment wasn't easy.

— Stacey Solomon

“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.”

— Stephen King

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

— Anthony Daniels

Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

— David Elkind

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

— Don Henley

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.

— Sigmund Freud

Obviously I went through my adolescence on national TV, but it's great looking back.

— Kelvin Fletcher

Growing up is hard enough. When you have to deal with adults all day, it's just that much more difficult.

— Cris Collinsworth

What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?

— Joanna Brooks

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

— Chris Van Hollen

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time…

— Mignon McLaughlin

“The trick to being an adult is maintaining that childlike wonder while still managing to do soul-killing things like paying bills.”

— Katee Robert