Quotes About Adolescence

I didn't feel attractive in high school.

I had boyfriends in high school, and then I dated guys and girls, so I guess for a long time I was bisexual.

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

I was the hallway clown in high school.

In high school, I didn't date awesome dudes.

I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.

I was definitely not one of the cool girls in Suffern High School.

I was gender-nonconforming in high school in terms of the way I dressed, in terms of the way I cut my hair.

Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

Don't ask me about Beverly Hills High School. Everybody hated it. I hated it. Hated it. Hated it. Hated it.

Every intelligent boy of sixteen is a Socialist. At that age one does not see the hook sticking out of the rather stodgy bait.

I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl. That skirt-bound race perpetually moving about serving tea had nothing to do with me.

The war was less than a year old. We did not yet know what it was. In "A Thrilling Youth: A Civil War Adolescence," by E. G. Frame.

I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl.

Only if one was very cruel did one laugh at a boy in the throes of his first love.

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.

When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.

I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.