Quotes About Adolescence

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.

High school; It looked so much better on TV.

He is too young to know himself a prisoner.

we were only twelve, too young to brood.

IT WAS SPRING, AND WE WERE FIFTEEN.

We were all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.

Your son is not yet a man." Tyndareus' voice seemed far away. I could detect nothing in it.

Uno nunca está tan solo como cuando se es adolescente y tiene un secreto, nunca se duele tanto, nunca se despedaza por dentro más que a esa edad cuando en vez de formarse, uno se está rompiendo.

Obviously, it's a huge deal when your little girl starts to turn into a woman, but the change has a gentle fluidity, so it seems to happen like time-lapse photography of a flower blooming.

The chubby white suburban teenagers impersonating cops were precisely the kind of men to whom we would have preferred not to unload this story.

Aged sixteen, is what she sees first. Then: Insists on keeping her hair long. Iris reads the whole document from beginning to end, then goes back and reads it again. It ends with: Parents report finding her dancing before a mirror, dressed in her mother's clothes.

They call to one another in their particular argot: pure Home Counties cut with Teen American. A lot of yips, heys, elongated vowels. They swing bags through the air. Hair is flicked, stroked, tossed. Trousers are worn tight but low; shoes unlaced. The females link arms with their chosen peers; the males perform mock violence upon those they recognize as their tribe.

She never liked school. The work she enjoyed, the lessons and the teachers. If only school could be just that. But the shoals of girls, forever combing and recombing their hair and snickering behind their hands. Insufferable, they were.

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

You must come out into the real world and face these problems sensibly and maturely. These lavatories are just an adolescent escape-mechanism, like going to the pictures; they're a dream world. You must come to terms with things, and not expect too much.