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"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."
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"It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult, and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one."
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"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"Insecurity, thy name is teenager."
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Personal Development
"Some people are boys longer than others."
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Personal Development
"When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business " that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time."
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Personal Development
"The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"It's very important my parent's don't think I'm starting to fall in love with people, because then they might notice that I'm growing up, and I'm kind of trying to keep it a secret. I think it will cause an incident."
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Personal Development
"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."
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"But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh."
Life
"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."
Education
"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."
Adolescence
"My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away."
Diet
"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."
Giving
"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers."
Winning
"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me."
Mother
"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
Growing up
"We don't stop going to school when we graduate."
School
"My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres."
Mother
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