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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.
I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
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.
When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.
men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of my adolescence, I struggled with that, trying to identify where I belong and who my real friends are.
Skinniness is a new fashion. It reflects an obsession with youth, a suggestion of pre-adolescence when a female's fertility can be dominated. It implies vulnerability, feebleness and fragility.
I think most of my childhood, adolescence, and teenage years, I was struggling to feel validated - which led to a lot of my career choices as well.
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic attention in adolescence.
I grew up in south London and spent most of my adolescence in the snooker halls of the area, turning professional at 17.
I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.
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.
Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.
I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.
In my adolescence, everyone would like to play in Italy: Roma, Milan, Lazio, Juventus, Sampdoria, Napoli.
As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence
Adolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.
In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.
By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.
My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.
I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
I was very dreamy. Insular. I'm always amazed I survived adolescence at all and wasn't squashed flat by a juggernaut. Gaping, I think was my main skill. Staring out of the window.
F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.
Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.
Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.
I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is access to the whole world.
many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.
I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.
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.
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence.
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.
