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"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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"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."
"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."
"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."
"When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24 - year - old girl."
"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."
"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."
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"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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