Adolescence Quote by Gail Sheehy

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably…

— Virginia Satir

Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of failure. Sometimes…

— Stella Chess

Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another…

— Mary Pipher

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 dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable,…

— Stephen Dobyns

Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a…

— Garrison Keillor

Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your…

— Laurence Steinberg

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

— Anonymous

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they…

— Aristotle

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

— Tori Amos

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The…

— Laurence Steinberg