Adolescence Quote by Betty Friedan

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

— Stanley Donen

I was sort of a miserable teenager.

— Colson Whitehead

I was miserable as a kid.

— Maurice Sendak

School was like a hostile place. I just hated being at school. I think some people really thrive in that environment. I was a…

— Olly Alexander

In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and…

— Michael Leunig

I remember my school days with mixed emotions; I was so grateful to be given a mainstream education, and yet at times I felt…

— Liz Carr

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness…

— Linda Hunt

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

— Graham Norton

I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that…

— Ben Mendelsohn

I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting…

— Sarah Dessen

As a teenager, I felt so hemmed in and trapped, both by the place I lived and the expectations others had about school, college,…

— Sabaa Tahir

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

— Columba Bush