I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
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.
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we’ve all gone through that period. It’s not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
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.
Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can’t do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
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.
Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.
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.
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
You have teenagers thinking they’re going to make millions as NBA stars when that’s not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn’t want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn’t.
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.
Female adolescence is – universally – an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
Growing up, I’ve enjoyed hunting with my father.
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.
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.
