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Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

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.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

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 when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.