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• Ones teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Country, Teacher, Leaving

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• Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that someone looks at and feels about her particular situation.... Listening to learn from a daughter in adolescence, conspiring with her thoughts and feelings, keeps a mother in touch with a daughter's growing and changing self.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Mother, Daughter, Mean

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• Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Parent, Relief, Survivor

  Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub

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• When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

  Alice Hoffman

  Writing, Character, Cutting

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• adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we discover free will. I wonder that it doesn't tear us off our bases for good and all.

  Grace Zaring Stone

  Tears, Vices, Wonder

  Ethel Vance, Grace Zaring Stone (1942). “Reprisal”

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• The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Recovery, Simple, Two

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• It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices. You can really screw yourself in adolescence.

  Josh Hartnett

  Choices, Scary, Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.

  Gordon Allport

  Loyalty, Children, Personality

  Gordon Willard Allport (1955). “Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”, p.29, Yale University Press

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• Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Teenage, Adultery

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• Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.

  Virginia Satir

  Blessing, Giving, Support

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• Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Teenage, Patterns, Life Is

  Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1965). “Coming of Age in America”

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• Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Growing Up, Tv Shows, Quality

  "Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal". Book by Miller Newton, 1995.

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• Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

  Judith Viorst

  Effort, Body, Desperate

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.

  Maureen Daly

  Growing Up, House, Sides

  Maureen Daly (1946). “Seventeenth summer”

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• The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

  J. G. Ballard

  Retirement, Mean, Significant Change

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.

  Paulo Coelho

  Way, Embrace, Wanted

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.

  Terri E Apter

  Mother, Father, Moving

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• There have been times in my adolescence where I gave up. I was like, 'I'm just never going to be pretty. I'm never going to be like one of those people on the front of magazines.' It always seemed really strange to me that the projection of how people are in advertisements looked nothing like the people who were actually buying them. You know what I mean? I never understood that mismatch, and now I really start to see that the people you see in the media are a lot more like people actually are.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mean, Media, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?

  Margaret Mead

  Civilization, Doe, Different

  Margaret Mead (1971). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very formative moment in my adolescence and impressed me forever with the persona of the prostitute, whom I continue to revere. The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Men, Yale

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• Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

  Elvis Presley

  Teenager, Triumph

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• I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something!

  Gene Roddenberry

  Life, Children, Growing Up

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• The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Pain, Doubt, Growth

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• Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.

  Emily Giffin

  Regret, Scary, Feelings

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.167, Macmillan

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