Adolescence Quote by Judith Viorst

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

— G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

— Anonymous

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

— Henry Rollins

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

— Caitlin Flanagan

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

— Tori Amos

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 has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.

— Mary Tyler Moore

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

— Anonymous

“If by adolescence limbic, autonomic, and endocrine systems are going full blast while the frontal cortex is still working out the assembly instructions, we’ve…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

— Faye Moskowitz

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