Adolescence Quotes
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
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Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
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Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence
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Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.
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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
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Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.
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It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.
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Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
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Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
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I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.
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Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.
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Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.
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Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.
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We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.
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Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.
