If, as PJ O'Rourke ones quipped, giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys, giving actual money and power to teenage boys (and girls) is as predictably d...

Mark Hemingway

Tags: adolescence, maturity, student government

The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if f...

Bell Hooks

The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if f...

Bell Hooks

Tags: adolescence, bell hooks, feminism, feminist, masculinity, men, men and women, mental illness, murder, teenagers

Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adole...

David Eddings

Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adole...

David Eddings

Tags: adolescence, fashion, humor

For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness" or "uniqueness" as an individual. In the world there are lots of social groups...

Laura Hanna

For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness" or "uniqueness" as an individual. In the world there are lots of social groups...

Laura Hanna

Tags: adolescence, fitting in, growing pains, growing up, life, loneliness

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Tags: poetry, adolescence, thus, preserved

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

Eric Hoffer

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

Eric Hoffer

Tags: adolescence, teenage angst, teenagers

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.

Roman Payne

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.

Roman Payne

Tags: adolescence, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, growing up, memories, roman payne, teen, teenage love, teenagers