In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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.
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 is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.