Quotes About Adolescence

Ramona and her father

Having a sister who tried to act like the Virgin Mary was not easy for a girl who felt as Ramona did.

Just as girls who have become interested in boys become disdainful of their friends still interested in dolls, the Black teens who are at the table can be quite judgmental toward those who are not. "If I think it is a sign of authentic Blackness to sit at this table, then you should too.

A 13 anni, è risaputo, una femmina è una ragazza in fiore, una giovane donna nel pieno splendore della maturità, mentre un maschio è un lattante goffo e ridicolo che deve soltanto girare alla larga. L'unica dota apprezzabile in lui è quella di saper star al suo posto. Cioè fuori dai piedi.

The brain takes a long time to form completely. A teenager's brain is only about 80 percent finished (which may not come as a great surprise to the parents of teenagers

The brain takes a long time to form completely. A teenager's brain is only about 80 percent finished

I was about to say it was an awful place, but in fact, like most things connected with one's adolescence, it was wonderful and awful at the same time.

Until 1604 the age of consent was twelve for a girl, fourteen for a boy.

About 15 percent of girls now begin puberty by age seven.

thirteen-year-old boys looking at porn for the first time

She's trying to sleep with every boy on the football team before her junior year. If she does, she wins five hundred dollars." "Now who would pay her to do a thing like that?" "The football team.

You couldn't talk to him in adult logic. Teenage logic was necessary.

Grievance was a big part of Trump's core, very much like a 14-year-old boy who felt he was being picked on unfairly.

Pam described herself as the person in fifth grade who got left behind when her friends got popular.

It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

How many girls do you think a seventeen-year-old boy would have to screw to earn the label compulsively promiscuous? Three? No, not enough. Six? Doubtful. Ten? That sounds more likely. Probably in the fifteen-to-twenty range, would be my guess--if they ever put that label on boys, which I don't recall their doing. And for seventeen-year-old, how many boys?

How many girls do you think a seventeen-year-old boy would have to screw to earn the label compulsively promiscuous? Three? No, not enough. Six? Doubtful. Ten? That sounds more likely. Probably in the fifteen-to-twenty range, would be my guess--if they ever put that label on boys, which I don't recall their doing. And for seventeen-year-old girls, how many boys?

They were all seventeen and miserable, just like me. They didn't have time to wonder why I was a little more miserable than most.

Stavolta lessi il titolo del quadro: Ragazza interrotta mentre suona. Interrotta mentre suona: com'era stata la mia vita, interrotta nella musica dei miei diciassette anni, com'era stata la sua vita, strappata e fissata su tela: un momento reso immobile, per tutti gli altri momenti, qualsiasi cosa fossero o avrebbero potuto essere. Quale vita può guarirne?

Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.

Eva, she said exasperated. You should've established a personal style by now-and it shouldn't be sweats! Monica, Eva Tramell's mother, in Reflected in You

Now the one thing this article didn't seem to me to consider was how a girl felt.

Our grown-up was dinged and damaged.  One of us was only thirteen and knew far less than he thought he did, and the eleven-year-old among us had to work to keep from whining. I wanted my mother in a powerful way, which I made a brave attempt to hide.

We were just kids using each other not to feel out of place.