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"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."
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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."
"When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window when she was walking to school? The moment she started wondering how she looked when she ran, what jiggled or bounced, instead of the pace she was setting? The first time she'd kept from raising her hand because she didn't want to seem too smart or too eager?"
"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
"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."
"One had to be careful with elbows and boys."
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"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
"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."
"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."
"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table."
"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."
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