Quotes About Adolescence

From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.

I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14, and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though.

Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.

Growing up, I fluctuated between wanting to modify my looks and embracing them.

Not everybody has their first kiss in front of 200 extras and their mom.

My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.

I was an average kid who had his wimpy moments.

Kids have awkward moments.

Monster Hearts is pretty cool!

I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'

We knew of Sartre and we dressed like the French existentialists. Our philosophy then, and remember we were only little kids, was more in following their looks than their thoughts. We were going around looking moody.

I would pretty much like to forget the music that happened to me between the ages of eight and 11, so I'm going to say the first album I bought was the special edition of 'Dark Side of the Moon.'

I used to get two buses to school, and you'd see more or less everyone in the city centre, so I kind of knew everyone around my age group.

I'm happy to be thought of as cool, but I never was cool. Everyone thought I was this complete moron and complete dork for the majority of my school years.

I was mortified by my parents - what they did, who they were, everything. I hated who I was. I hated everything, and I would live in a fantasy world and try to be different. But that's not a lot different, I think, than a lot of kids.

When I was 12, I used to be the best friend of the most beautiful girls, but just the best friend. They would always come to me to cry about a guy who broke their heart, and I would just be sitting there thinking, 'I wish I was the guy and not the best friend.'

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up for success as an adult. So if coming out now will hinder your education, maybe we take some time to think about whether the time is right or not. Those are my concern.

I was not a happy or popular or happy-with-myself kid, and I wasn't an especially motivated student, either.

I never cared about money because I never needed money, you know what I mean? When I was 12 to 17 I never saw any of the money, so the money never motivated me.

My father was stationed in Italy in the military. I had no one to feed me what was cool, so I was into Guns N' Roses and New Kids on the Block and MC Hammer and a lot of '80s hair bands. But I was never into Motley Crue, they never stuck with me.

When I was 16, everyone else got a car; I got a motorcycle.

If you have ever talked about having an "identity crisis" you have psychologist Erik Erikson to thank for inventing the term. Erikson