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"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."
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"At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you became as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something that everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgettingone how painful it had been at the time."
"At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time."
"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
"Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of."
"Some people are boys longer than others."
"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
"Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me."
"It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school."
"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."
"When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24 - year - old girl."
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"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."
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