Definition of Adolescence

Adolescence

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

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Adolescence Quotations

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
Carol Burnett

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
Earl Wilson

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
Winona Ryder

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
Martha Beck

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
Art Linkletter

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
Nora Ephron

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
Jose Saramago

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
Maya Lin

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
Rex Stout

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.
Harold Bloom

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
Jena Malone

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

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
Joe Baca

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
Stanislav Grof

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.
Anna Paquin

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.
Deborah Bull

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
Harry Mathews

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.
Harold Brodkey

When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.
Jerry O'Connell

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
Brooke Shields

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.
Uma Thurman

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.
Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Terri Apter

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Peter Shaffer

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
Ron Taffel

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
David Elkind

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
Robert Cormier

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Adolescence Translations

adolescence in French is adolescent
adolescence in Hungarian is kamaszkor

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