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" Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. "

G. Stanley Hall

" Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies going on. "

William Kircher

" Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways. "

" Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. "

G. Stanley Hall

" Adolescence is a plague on the senses. "

" Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely. "

" Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. "

" Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses. "

" Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. "

" Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. "

Louise J. Kaplan

" Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer. "

" Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge. "

" After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. "

" As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind. "

" As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick. "

Kristin Armstrong

" A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. "

" By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence. "

" During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had. "

" Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. "

" Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, it probably wouldn't reduce your chances of fracture later in life. "

" Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period. "

Caitlin Flanagan

" Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. "

" I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited. "

Jonathan Ke Quan

" I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. "

Suzanne Collins

" I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. "

" I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent. "

" I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior. "

Katherine Waterston

" I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time. "

" I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat. "

" In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it. "

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