Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. ...
Mary Pipher
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Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses. ...
Jena Malone
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Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. ...
Virginia Satir
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All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away. ...
Joan Chen
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As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. ...
Johnny Depp
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. ...
Fran Lebowitz
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As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager. ...
Joe Bob Briggs
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At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family. ...
Milla Jovovich
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Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks. ...
Sophia Bush
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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise. ...
Wayne Kramer
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Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did. ...
Clyde Tombaugh
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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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Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. ...
David Elkind
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Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon. ...
Terry Brooks
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Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. ...
Claire Danes
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Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. ...
Laurence J. Peter
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I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown. ...
Diane Cilento
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I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. ...
Constance Baker Motley
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I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. ...
Robert Cormier
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I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties. ...
Winona Ryder
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I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. ...
Rob Lowe
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I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television. ...
Brittany Snow
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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 think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. ...
Alice Hoffman
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I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in. ...
Matthew Vaughn
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I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things. ...
Miranda Otto
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I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. ...
Ethel Waters
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I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone. ...
Adriana Lima
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