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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. -- G. Stanley Hall
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. -- Louise J. Kaplan
Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses. -- Jena Malone
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. -- Mary Pipher
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future. -- Louise J. Kaplan
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. -- Carol Burnett
Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery. -- Ambrose Bierce
Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor. -- Jodie Foster
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. -- Earl Wilson
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. -- Coco Chanel
Adolescence is like cactus. -- Anais Nin
Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery. -- Ambrose Bierce
Adolescence is a plague on the senses. -- Henry Rollins
Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma. -- Richard Armour
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. -- Jules Feiffer
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. -- Max Lerner
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. -- Martha Beck
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony. -- Andy Hargreaves
Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom. -- Mardy Grothe
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. -- Art Linkletter
Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways. -- Tayari Jones
Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers. -- Evan Esar
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. -- Bill Vaughan
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. -- Bill Vaughan
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence. -- Alice Thomas Ellis
Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. -- Arthur Koestler
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi
Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. -- G. Stanley Hall
Adolescence as the time when an individual "?recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. -- G. Stanley Hall
Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed. -- David Gerrold
True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing. -- Sophia Loren
Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you. -- Sarah Addison Allen
Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges. -- Judith Viorst
Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions. -- Mary Tyler Moore
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. -- Robert Cormier
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 twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors. -- Faye Moskowitz
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. -- G. Stanley Hall
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. -- David Elkind
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. -- Rex Stout
Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us? -- John Irving
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. -- Stanislav Grof
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. -- Brooke Shields
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 a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Al Bernstein
L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something. -- Marcel Proust
Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period. -- Virgil Miller Newton
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge. -- Nancy Gibbs
Adolescence isn't about relationships, its about dating. Its suppose to be relaxed, and fun. Isn't that what being a teenager is all about? -- Raven Jayne
Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music. -- Jim Morrison
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. -- Georges Bernanos
Adolescence isn't about relationships, its about dating. Its so you know the kind of person you want to be with when you're ready for that relationship. -- Raven Jayne
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. -- Uma Thurman
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up. -- Jill Lepore
Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word. -- Michel Houellebecq
Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created. -- Helene Deutsch
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. -- Nora Ephron
Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. -- Ron Taffel
Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you havenâ??t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing. -- Anthony Kiedis
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth. -- Haim Ginott
Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential. -- Bill Henson
Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41) -- Stephen Dobyns
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. -- Camille Paglia
Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore. -- 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 responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held. -- Anna Quindlen
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 of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology. -- Louise J. Kaplan
Adolescence impelled her eyes to stay at an even keel, to deal with the ground before flickering to the heavens. Night became not dotted with fairy clouds of celestial brilliance, but simply the time when the sun was out of sight. -- Thomm Quackenbush
I made a film about adolescence and what going through it is like for a specific group of girls. Adolescence is always about wanting desperately to be individuals, and also about wanting desperately to fit in. For every teenager it's about finding that balance. -- Linda Goldstein Knowlton
Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind. -- Louise J. Kaplan
I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces. -- Christina Ricci
I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity. -- Tom Lehrer
I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults. -- Julian Barnes
I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible. -- Shailene Woodley
I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else. -- Michael Cera
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. -- Bruce Feiler
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through -- Arthur Miller
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what. -- Eddie Vedder
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. -- Hugh Hefner
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics. -- Lee Atwater
Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum. -- Clyde Edgerton
Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are. -- John Grogan
I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me. -- Joss Whedon
Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are. -- Chris Pine
nothing is as conventional as adolescence. -- Margaret Deland
My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics. -- Kerri Strug
Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea. -- Andy Warhol
Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero. -- Joss Whedon
Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence. -- George Alec Effinger
He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence. -- Aneurin Bevan
All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence. -- Helene Deutsch
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. -- Suzanne Collins
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period. -- Caitlin Flanagan
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. -- Rita Mae Brown
God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence. -- Mark Patinkin
F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent. -- Mason Cooley
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed. -- Harlan Coben
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. -- Peter Shaffer
We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party. -- Don Henley
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. -- Idries Shah
In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life. -- Janet Erskine Stuart
Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence. -- Carrie Fisher
Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence. -- Jesse Williams
many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love. -- Judith Viorst
I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence. -- Chris Eigeman
My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all. -- Greg Kinnear
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult. -- Kate Beckinsale
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence. -- Susan Beth Pfeffer
Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. -- Idries Shah
From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America. -- Jay Saunders Redding
Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence. -- Roger Ebert
After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. -- Gore Vidal
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. -- Plutarch
In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it. -- Mira Nair
I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family. -- Randy Quaid
The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird. -- Scott Turow
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely. -- Ben Mendelsohn

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