"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."

Adolescence, America, Class, Now, Right

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"I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.And then Dante came along."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

Adolescence, Identity, Friendship, Youth, Acceptance

"Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts, ... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul."

Zadie Smith, British Novelist

Adolescence, Youth, Change, Growth, Transformation

"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, American Psychoanalyst

Adolescence, Future, Past, Struggle

"Some people are boys longer than others."

Patricia Briggs, American Author

Adolescence, Maturity, Time, Growth, Delay

"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

Adolescence, Youth, Boredom, Misery

"Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Adolescence, Youth, Isolation, Growth, Identity

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

John Ciardi, English Dramatist

Adolescence, Suffering

"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, American Psychologist

Adolescence, Kids

"So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something?--ZP.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't mind.Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other boys as threats, and I enjoy making them seem insignificant by calling them the wrong names. (Translation by Macey McHenry)"

Ally Carter, American Novelist

Adolescence, Jealousy, Competition, Teenage, Humor

"It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

Adolescence, Embarrassment, Attraction, School

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"I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.And then Dante came along."

"Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts, ... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul."

"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."

"Some people are boys longer than others."

"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."

"Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me."

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

"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."

"It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school."

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"A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators."

"Faith is like a kernel of wheat."

"The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle."

"It's not a crime to get drunk."

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"Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke."

"In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions."

"Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action."

"Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever."

"I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?"