Adolescence Quote by Anonymous

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast…

— Helene Deutsch

Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal…

— Anna Quindlen

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

— Judith Viorst

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

— Mary Pipher

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

— Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

— G. Stanley Hall

Maturity is doing whatever you want, even if your parents want the same thing.

— Werner Erhard

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

— Anonymous

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

— Ben Shapiro

Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are better equipped…

— Terri E Apter

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being…

— Julian Barnes

Youth condemns; maturity condones

— Amy Lowell