Top Adolescence Quotes
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Terri Apter
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
Jose Saramago
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Peter Shaffer
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
Maya Lin
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The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.
Jeanne Elium 
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Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
Rex Stout
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Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
Jena Malone
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Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
Ron Taffel
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Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
Louise J. Kaplan
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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
Uma Thurman
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I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
Winona Ryder
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I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
Stanislav Grof
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