adolescence

quote: 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.

quote: I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

quote: You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

quote: Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence.

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

quote: Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

quote: Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

quote: Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

quote: Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

quote: Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

quote: Adolescence: a stage between infancy and adultery.

quote: 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.

quote: Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore
them long enough.

quote: At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

quote: Adolescence and snow are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

quote: You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

quote: The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

quote: We want to extend our adolescence as long as we can,

quote: We want to extend our adolescence as long as we can. I.O., Upright Citizens Brigade and 'SNL' have enabled me to do that.

quote: The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence

quote: The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

quote: Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

quote: Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

quote: Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

quote: I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don't. I've come to respect the project more because of the response than I've had. It's more important than I realized it was. I didn't understand the breadth and depth of it. now I'm beginning to more.

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