Quotes About Adolescence

There were the other girls, with their empty bellies, and there was me.

La vie, le désir, asexués. Je le savais, à quinze ans, en demandant à Colette de nous embrasser sur la bouche, « pour savoir

Je voulais dire, écrire au sujet de mon père, sa vie, et cette distance venue à l'adolescence entre lui et moi. Une distance de classe, mais particulière, qui n'a pas de nom. Comme de l'amour séparé.

Ho cominciato a disprezzare le convenzioni sociali, le pratiche religiose, il denaro. Trascrivevo poesie di Rimbaud e di Prévert, incollavo fotografie di James Dean sulla copertina dei quaderni, ascoltavo "Le mauvaise réputation" di Brassens, mi annoiavo. Vivevo la mia ribellione adolescenziale in maniera romantica, come se i miei genitori fossero stati borghesi. Mi identificavo con gli artisti incompresi.

Monter en ville, rêver, se faire jouir et attendre, résumé possible d'une adolescente de province)

Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 telling them to sit down and shut-up.

I've never had to make weight for any sport before. Because, get this, I was not allowed to do any sports in school because I was a professional athlete. I was doing wrestling at the age of 15, so the school districts and the board of directors said that because I was a professional athlete that I couldn't do anything.

I broke my nose playing netball aged 15. I've hated my profile ever since.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

I've never actually been to prom.

I didn't go to my prom. I didn't go to my homecoming.

For 'Prom,' if I had missed high school, I don't think it would come off as real.

I've never been to a black-tie thing in my life. I didn't even go to my prom.

You're supposed to go to prom during high school. I don't go to high school. I homeschool.

I'll probably never go to prom. I haven't ever been to a high school dance.

Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

I was pretty much a homebody; didn't really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

I was working in theater, so I didn't get to go to my prom.