Quotes about Adolescence

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No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time. — Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young gir — Jess C. Scott, Take-Out, Part 1
When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late. — O. S. Hickman
Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surpr — Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries
Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of — Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows
There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn th — Umberto Eco
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing a — Gertrude Stein, Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing f — Freeman Dyson, Infinite in All Directions
I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thi — Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
Through most of human history, our ancestors had children shortly after puberty, just as the members of all nonhuman spe — Robert Epstein
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand — Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With
Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, everything I did not — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Fear finds its prey in adolescents for the exact same reason fearlessness does. Every cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer — John M. Keller, Abracadabrantesque
It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as those kind of girls who belonged to each other. Th — Emma Cline, The Girls
Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-i — Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love
After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from e — Henry Handel Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom
And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And — Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
But it was something else, too, that I wanted to extend: the taut and pleasant silence in the car, the stale heat raisin — Emma Cline, The Girls
Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, o — Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth