Adolescence Quote by Faye Moskowitz

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 time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

— Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and…

— Louise J. Kaplan

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without…

— Sara Paretsky

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to…

— Louise J. Kaplan

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

— Theodore Roethke

“Modern parents can take comfort from the fact that most of our teenagers come through adolescence, too—perhaps a little bruised, maybe a little humiliated,…

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the…

— Jane Ridley

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

— Mary Pipher

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 is a plague on the senses.

— Henry Rollins