Adolescence Quotes

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

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Period
  • Teen
  • Intense

• 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.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mysterious
  • Except
  • Reverse

• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Difficult
  • Adolescence

• 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.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Family
  • Depression
  • Dirt

• 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.

  

  Rita Levi-Montalcini
  • Experience
  • Convinced
  • Entirely

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

  

  Harlan Coben
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Adolescence

• Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Energy
  • Childhood
  • Border

• Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Style
  • Propaganda
  • Decadence

• Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • American
  • Very
  • Adolescence

• 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.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Sense
  • Helps
  • Adolescence

• Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Childhood
  • Modern
  • Rate

• The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Age
  • Laziness
  • Rehearsal

• 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.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Reason
  • Goats
  • Fourteen

• Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Childhood
  • Manhood
  • Boyhood

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

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Innocence
  • Combination
  • Isolence

• Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Senses
  • Adolescence
  • Plague

• When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to....transform their pain into healings; ...transform their tears to laughter: ...transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness.

  

  Harry Hay
  • Childhood
  • Trials
  • Gayness

• Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Easy
  • Stage
  • Negotiating

• I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Lucky
  • Adolescence

• 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.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Happens
  • Girls
  • Dramatic

• 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 The Doors
  • Youth
  • Adolescence
  • Fires

• 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.

  

  William James
  • Humans
  • Remains
  • Adolescence

• Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • People
  • Children
  • Sometimes

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